Re: [tlug] [Newbie] Becoming 'root' in Kubuntu -- AV concerns

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

burlingk@example.com wrote:

> Also, even though Linux has fewer viruses
> targeted at it, there are a few.  Not to
> mention, targeted non-automated attacks
> do happen on occasion.  How much access
> these attackers and/or viruses have to
> your system, is directly related to the
> level of access that you have when they
> successfully get through.

I was saving this issue for another time, but as long as you've seen fit 
to raise it here, I'll plunge ahead ...

Is installing an AV program a good idea?  Anyone have a religious 
preference?  I have been running clamav in Xandros (it is part of the 
standard desktop installed base), but avast! is available for Debian and 
it it is what I use / prefer in WIN.  Having unpacked and installed it 
once before, it seems to be only nominally like the WIN version, like so 
many other ported programs.  Clamav, on the other hand, is a Linux 
program that can be installed straight out of the existing repository.

> That said, I am working on a response to
> the OP's email also, discussing how to do
> what he wants to do. ^^;;

Well, I got the job done, but I would appreciate a solution that didn't 
require holding the target in a machinists vice while applying the BFH 
and the two meter breaker bar.

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CL