Anti-Virus Programs

[Jay Ouzts]

Jay Ouzts wrote:

The link can be best summed up in this paragraph:

If a user lacks the judgement to use the root account safely, the only 
way to protect the system from that user is for him/her to /not have 
root access/. After carrying out this remedy to address the /real/ 
causes of the problem, adding a "virus checker" is neither necessary nor 
useful.

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>> Really?  Could you provide some examples?  It's certainly possible, it's
>> _still_ unlikely (perhaps not quite "close to non-existing").
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> Here is a pretty comprehensive discussion of Linux Viruses.   The 
> author's opinion is that to get a virus you have to be 1) trying hard 
> to get the virus or 2) really foolish.    There are other security 
> risks (hence the need for a firewall) but viruses and other malware 
> are low-risk.
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> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus#virus5
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