These people are wasting their marketing money. In a envirioinment where users can install their own php scripts, no admin can realistically trust the users to remember upgrade their xmlrpc or has the resources to upgrade them for the users I remember one, which might have been the first, from back in ' They were pretty useless but did exist in the wild.
You should be able to search here or google to get specifics. Combining such a program, or more likely a self-running malware program worm with an zero-day unpatched and externally exploitable vulnerability and you could have something as bad as the Morris worm multiplied by the growth of the Internet since then. Who knows if this scanner checks for any actual Linux worms and viruses.
Outside of Adore and Ramen I've never seen anything in the wild. Any of worry will probably be new, not something taking advantage of five year old Apache vulnerabilities. Unfortunately not true. Serving web pages is not usually considered a risky activity on Linux, yet it is on Windows unless you "harden" the web server.
Also, there have been many instances of infections just downloading mail, browsing web pages, etc. So is opening Excel and Word documents sent by others. And using Internet Explorer without keeping it patched, or with ActiveX enabled.
So I agree, there are more risky activities on Windows, but I disagree that it isn't possible to avoid them. Well, first those activities you mention using Outlook, opening foreign Word documents, or surfing with an old Explorer is the bread and butter of most people's computer experience.
Hyre subscriber, [ Link ] Reminds me of the story about the guy on the train: Sam sits down on the train next to George, who's in the window seat. After a bit of chatting, George starts to tear a paper napkin into small squares. So the point is not that Linux is more secure than other systems, but rather that viruses in particular are not a significant portion of the threat to insecure Linux systems, and scanning is therefore not a useful response to security threats on Linux.
It's not unlikely that something bad and widespread will happen to Linux systems at some point, but it is unlikely that it will be a virus or that a virus scanner would have any effect on it. Apparently, there is much loot in the laughable. COM, but somehow that never caught on.
So much for the fabled innovation that Microsoft is allegedly spending billions of dollars on each year. The chances of the first of these landing in a released kernel is The wrong approach Posted Jan 11, UTC Wed by flewellyn subscriber, [ Link ] This is just another example of "enumerating badness", which is never going to work.
There's an indefinite number of ways that a machine can be misused or abused. The quarterly prediction of a Linux virus plague. I guess I can stop waiting for that one now. Install our proprietary 'virus protection' on top of your free software desktop!
Anyone else feel something a little funny in their bones? A point raised by Schneier Posted Jan 11, UTC Wed by rickmoen subscriber, [ Link ] Aside from other obvious problems, many of them detailed here, one wants to ask Grisoft whether they, like almost all other MS-Windows antivirus firms, deliberately told their users nothing about ongoing security compromise by Sony BMG's corporate-sponsored malware.
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