Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:15:42 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Olivier Nicole" <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu, ws@au.dyndns.ws, kraduk@gmail.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anti-virus for FreeBSD Message-ID: <57130.128.135.52.6.1458836142.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <wu7d1qkzdwm.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <wu7d1qkzdwm.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Wed, March 23, 2016 11:40 pm, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Valeri, > >> Partly to toss some more fuel into the fire ;-) and partly to discourage >> too harsh judgement of "some anti-vurus software not catching some >> viruses" (or should I say virii as a plural of Latin word virus?) > > I feel like bit of trolling :) > >> First of all, the whole anti-virus approach is fundamentally flawed. In >> fact, you can not enumerate bad (what anti-virus is trying to do). You >> only can enumerate good and prohibit everything else. So, don't be too >> harsh on those [anti-viruses] that miss some of evil things sometimes: >> remember, they are trying to do the task that is fundamentally flawed. > > And in the best of the wolrd, no one would be temptent to send viruses > (I doubt anyone uses virii, or else, they also call the veeroos, not > vayras). > > In the real world, you need to let the information flaw, so you have to > take some risk. While a deny default is the best policy, it is not > always possible to enforce. > >> Second, the very existence of Windows viruses is based on architecture >> flaws of MS Windows system IMHO. > > I understand that there is a good share of viruses for Android nowdays, > does that mean Android is build on to of Windows :) Are there many Android viruses? Then they (Android) probably do the same stupid thing (feeling safe because of having you - user - sitting with your stuff in jail), and are trying to execute whatever they see executable around... Did I guess it correctly? Valeri > >> Of course, most of us have to use and >> maintain that system in a course of fulfilling our job duties; that can >> not prevent us from having some attitude. Based on which I would >> discourage running for your Unix/Linux mail server virus scanning >> software >> on Windows machine. > > And that is why I am looking for an Av that run on freeBSD :) > > Best regards, > > Olivier > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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