Do you use Anti-Virus on openSUSE? Which one?

[6tr6tr]

Wondering if anyone here uses anti-virus software on their openSUSE computer and if so which one and also whether it's caught linux-directed viruses.

[DaaX]

Hi,

IMO, you don't need it.

[stakanov]

Please search the forum on the innumerable and quite futile threads on this thematic.
To make a long story short: it makes sense to use a free anti virus in Linux to detect Window-email viruses on a linux server installation that serve also windows client in the net in order to protect them.
There are AFAIK no existing useful anti virus for Linux malware. The number of know potential viruses for linux is practically zero (very few and not know to be infectious in the wild).
If you want to avoid threat from worms and troyan horses as well as root kits do the following:
- do not grant physical access to you PC / server
- do all the necessary security updates
- use secure file permissions if applicable and avoid scripting if the machine is very mission critical.
- there are several root kit control solutions like rkhunter and others.
- use only software out of the controlled repositories.
- avoid adobe (reader-flash---------)
- use noscript plugin in firefox.
- set up correctly AppArmor or Tomoyo
- consider the use SE-Linux
Good luck.

[caf4926]

Wondering if anyone here uses anti-virus software on their openSUSE computer and if so which one and also whether it's caught linux-directed viruses.

No

[DenverD]

On 05/02/2011 07:06 PM, 6tr6tr wrote:
>
> Wondering if anyone here uses anti-virus software on their openSUSE
> computer

no, of course not..(there is no need, unless you want to help some
windows users protect their machine--but, ask yourself what they are
doing to help protect YOUR machine???)


> and if so which one and also whether it's caught linux-directed
> viruses.

no, of course not...(there are none)..

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[openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Thunderbird3.1.8 via NNTP]
HACK Everything -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5b4CCe9pS8&NR=1

[please_try_again]

If you want to avoid threat from worms and troyan horses as well as root kits do the following:
- do not grant physical access to you PC / server
- do all the necessary security updates
- use secure file permissions if applicable and avoid scripting if the machine is very mission critical.
- there are several root kit control solutions like rkhunter and others.
- use only software out of the controlled repositories.
- avoid adobe (reader-flash---------)
- use noscript plugin in firefox.
- set up correctly AppArmor or Tomoyo
- consider the use SE-Linux

May I add
- don't log in as root ...
or was it already obvious?

[malcolmlewis]

No more windows partitions in this household.... so nope. The only virus known to me is me and my typing....

[6tr6tr]

So far, I'm in line with everyone else. I NEVER log in as root (obviously I use sudo, but I'm careful with that). But...while I do believe Linux is a safer environment than windows (again, if you don't log in as root), it's not unhackable/immune-to-viruses. I think right now, it's no problem but since pretty much 100% of Tablet computers are now unix (BSD/linux) based (Mac and iPhoneOS are FreeBSD based) and almost all new smartphones are linux based, I think attacks on linux are going to start increasing.

[malcolmlewis]

Oh no my GPS is going to get a virus?

Phones are a different attack vector, all boils down no matter what platform your on... it's only the user/admin that presses the button to accept/do something.

[hcvv]

So far, I'm in line with everyone else. I NEVER log in as root (obviously I use sudo, but I'm careful with that). But...while I do believe Linux is a safer environment than windows (again, if you don't log in as root), it's not unhackable/immune-to-viruses. I think right now, it's no problem but since pretty much 100% of Tablet computers are now unix (BSD/linux) based (Mac and iPhoneOS are FreeBSD based) and almost all new smartphones are linux based, I think attacks on linux are going to start increasing.

Linux might not be imune to viruses (who knows?), but as long as there is none known, there can not be a AV program that knows about it. Unless you believe in wichcraft.