Some thoughts about anti-virus software for Linux

[Florian Diesch]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:


> You are correct about the repositories being the most vulnerable vector
> to infect Linux systems.  It has always been a problem which continually
> raises legitimate security concerns.

For every package in the official repository a SHA and MD5 checksum is
stored in an list that is GPG signed. This signature and the checksums
are verfied during installation and you get a warning if they don't
match.




   Florian
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