Clamav out of date

[Harold Hartley]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:18 -0400, Harold Hartley wrote:
>> As long as you have a firewall, most any distro should be able to
>> handle being seen by the internet running ftp server or web server or
>> any type of internet app for connecting to...
> 
> 
> Technically this is not correct. I'm not saying that any of this applies
> to Feisty, but still:
> 
> If you run a server you have to open ports in your firewall, and have
> daemons (services) listening on those ports. Hence, you do not have a
> firewall on those ports, at least facing some of the users (though you
> can use the firewall to keep specific IPs away from those ports).
> 
> If the daemons have exploitable holes, then you can be successfully
> attacked. Thus, not "any distro" is able to handle server tasks on the
> internet, _especially not for something as known insecure as ftp.
> 
> And talking about "any type of internet app" is nonsense and dangerous.
> For a risk assessment that is not completely worthless, you need to
> discuss any individual service and their various exploit scenarios in
> detail.
> 
> 
> 
> 
We all know that Microsoft server is connected to the internet and has 
problems and neededs fixes/patches.
Well, the same can go for linux, but it depend on how well a admin or 
end user sets up the configurations in it.

All in all, neither Linux or Microsoft is superiour over each other and 
both ends up with fixes or patches to fix any exploitables hole. Its 
just that all the hackers or crackers spends more time writing viurus's 
and such for windows and that is why we don't hear much about linux 
having problems like windows does.

Its just so many people choose windows over linux because they want a 
plug n play GUI compared to those of us that is willing to learn more 
about linux and use it.

Harold