I’m new-ish to linux but really enjoying it.
Do i need to install an antivirus? (I have installed WINE.)
What is recommended?
the young but happy penguin,
JP.
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yes you should be worried about viruses
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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What is SBP?
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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)
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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?
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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?
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
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This is basically not true ‘Linux experts wine over virus - vnunet.com’
(http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2116150/linux-experts-wine-virus).
There may well be ore issues as Linux becomes more popular.But as long
as machines are run as normal users and not root the treat is extremely
low.
/Geoff
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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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?
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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.
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I think boller4president means Standard Best Practices when he says SBP
Such as the things like these that he suggested:
Try to avoid visiting questionable websites and configure SUSE firewall
to be rigid.
Basically, being sensible in your net usage
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No I meant Security Best Practices.
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Two outta three ain’t bad 
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Same premise. To be fair it’s not a commonly used acronym.
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I don’t use WINE, and my mail reading program doesn’t execute
attachments, so I don’t bother with AV.
If you have WINE, or your files could be used by Windows systems,
perhaps you should use a scanner.
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