[opensuse] Re: A BIG "show stopper" for openSUSE at the corporate level anyway!!

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:48:34 -0500, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

Yeah, so of course it makes no sense at all to spend time on
implementing on-access scanning. Ever.

It's so much better to use much more complicated solutions. I should've
seen that at once! ;-)

It's not ANY more complicated then the ritualistic reinstall of Windows
to clean it up .. that most users have to do or have done on a regular
basis. *rolls eyes* ;D

I can't remember the last time I reinstalled Windows from scratch, VM or
otherwise. Of course, I don't run it on native hardware any more - I use
a combination of VMware, WINE, and Citrix to use Windows apps for work -
and there aren't many I need any more.

If it's just Linux with NO VM or Wine and your in some kind of danger of
passing on a virus via your mail client .. change mail clients cause if
a Linux/UNIX developer doesn't have it built into their client to warn
the user they are doing anything with a file that is a binary exe file
... that's a crappy mail client.

Maybe it makes sense that people who write mail clients write mail
clients and not AV software. Why a monolithic app to deal with them
both? Again, that seems antithetical to the whole idea behind *nix
development, which is to make things modular and to reuse those modules.

As I said .. I see nothing wrong with a user having ClamAV or some other
solution scanning their files if they so choose to do so ..

And I see nothing wrong with giving the user *the choice* of on-access
scanning if they want it.

but unless
someone gets a self-perpetuating virus to buzz around a UNIX system as
root without any interaction from me as a user .. I'm not wasting cpu
cycles on that stuff. I know what I send out via email and windows
virus/trojans can't hurt a UNIX system. Just like in life .. a little
care and no passing of infections is needed. ;D

It boils down to that personal responsibility thing. :D

Sure, and part of that personal responsibility is protecting yourself
from being infected or put in a position where you might spread an
infection.

Jim

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