as and operating system becomes more and more popular
you’re going to recive more secturty issus and besides some windows
viruses will run with wine and Linux viruses exist so not having an
antivirus is like going out in the middle of winter with out proper
dressing
Well I would personally advise you do so. Just make sure regardless of
your decision that you follow SBP. Try to avoid visiting questionable
websites and configure SUSE firewall to be rigid.
one shouldn’t worry about viruses on Linux/UNIX at this point, even if
it gets popular, the UNIX security model is much tougher than Windows.
You all should worry more about rootkits - install rkhunter. I have ran
various popular viruses under Wine and they all crash. If you use Linux
as mail server for Windows machines, it’s advisable to filter mails on
the Linux server before passing them over to Windows machines, so
antivirus on Linux in this case is a sane thing
Windows in all fairness has moved away from administrator(root accounts)
as well and is constantly reinventing it’s security model. Using a
non-privileged account is prob the best prev measure you can take.
boller4president;1934012 Wrote:
> Windows in all fairness has moved away from administrator(root accounts)
> as well and is constantly reinventing it’s security model. Using a
> non-privileged account is prob the best prev measure you can take.
this is only in the recent Vista/Win7 releases, the vast majority of
people still use XP and to some degree 2000 (still used a lot by
corporations)
more_red;1934028 Wrote:
> how does one use linux as a user without root privaledges? (i am the
> only user)
> is ‘antivir’ a good package to install from YaST?
> what is SBP?
create a regular user account if you haven’t already (this usually
should be done during installation by SUSE’s installer)
yes
no idea
in a terminal, you can type echo $UID and if you see any number above
0, means you’re using a normal user account - suse uses 1000, 1001,
1002, etc for normal accounts. Root is always 0
Hypertails;1933999 Wrote:
> … and besides some windows viruses will run with wine and Linux
> viruses exist so not having an antivirus is like going out in the middle
> of winter with out proper dressing
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Core 2 Duo 3.16GHz, 4GB DDR2, 2.5TB, GeForce 7600 GS, OS 11.1
x86_64, KDE4.2 RC1 (78.1) ‘Smolt specs’ (http://tinyurl.com/9hgxhl)
more_red;1934043 Wrote:
> Yes, created account on installation. Checked with echo $UID, returned
> 1000. Thanks for that.
>
> Should i be installing ‘antivir’ or something similar?
> What is SBP?
it’s your choice if you want antivir or not. Personally, I’ve never
needed an antivirus program for Linux on my home computers. you may want
to look into klamav too.