NOD32 on Linux

[Doug]

On 02/02/2011 10:14 AM, AV3 wrote:
> On Feb/2/2011 6:3904 AM, Mike McMullin wrote:
>> On January 23, 2011 12:24:13 pm Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>> Den 2011-01-23 17:41:58 skrev Cybe R. 
>>> Wizard<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>:
>>>> /snip/
>>>> Their offer to protect from Linux viruses is quite suspect:
>>>> http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8261-note-to-new-linux-us 
>>>>
>>>> ers-no-antivirus-needed therefore I would never use their product, 
>>>> even
>>>> if I thought I /should/ protect Winduhs users.
>>>>
>>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>> /snip/
>>
>>    One of the new AV apps for Linux is harking on how it is now our
>> responsibility to protect Windows users, but running an AV app, if we 
>> forward
>> files or e-mails to them.  Gee if their app was that it could catch 
>> it on
>> Windows why would I need it on Linux?
>>
>
>
>
> You don't "need" it, and you needn't bother with it. Only Windows AV 
> programs keep as up-to-date as possible with new malware, so an 
> AV-for-Linux would almost certainly lag behind. Linux users have 
> neither the ability to "protect" Windows users nor the responsibility.
>
>
> Mac went over to a Unix-based program ten years ago and has since 
> enjoyed the luxury of Unix protections. It is either baffling or 
> stupid for Microsoft to have ignored the obvious advantages of doing 
> the equivalent. I don't think any Unix-based OS users owe Windows 
> users any consideration; on the contrary, I think Microsoft ought to 
> pay compensation to others for the inconvenience of living in a world 
> of Windows-targeted malware, even if those others are largely immune 
> to it.
>
>
Altho it may be a little more difficult to write viri and worms for 
Unix-based systems, it has certainly been done--every so often you hear 
about some
really _bad_ worm that is infecting big computers all over the 
world--almost surely, Unix machines.  If I had to hazard a guess, it 
wouldn't take very
long , if M/S switched to a Unix based system, before all the crud that 
now infects M/S would be infecting the new M/S system, and, of course, _us_!

--doug

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