NOD32 on Linux

[AV3]

On Feb/3/2011 12:5533 AM, Doug wrote:
> 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_!
>


You may be right, but it seems more likely to me that only users folders 
would be at risk, not the system folder. So the makers of malware would 
have more limited rewards to look forward to. When confronted with Unix 
underpinnings of Mac OS X, the makers of malware for the old Mac OS just 
shriveled up and died.


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