Re: Begs a question: AV in Linux
Sergiy Michka <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.linux |
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Alexander Klimov schrieb: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Benson, Sean M wrote: > >>Should you run an anti-virus on linux for non-work issues? >>(Just home Workstations, Laptops, etc.. not mail servers.) > > > Just answer the following question: have you ever seen a virus which > has infected your linux box? If the answer is no (and I guess this is > the case) then it is pointless to install an anti-virus for internal > use. > I didnt had any virus on my linux boxes but I got a rootkit vie arp spoofing from internal network on 2 debian boxes (ignored the warning from apt-get, that the checksum from one package was wrong.. after that I got SIGSEGV with aptitude and got kernel based rootkit installed). Maybe it wouldnt happen to me, if I would have a good and working Antivir on the boxes or would have more brain to stop installation from such one package..