Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:18:24 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anti-virus for FreeBSD Message-ID: <56F40540.6090600@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44909.128.135.52.6.1458829510.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <wu74mbwz4ah.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <44909.128.135.52.6.1458829510.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --Xvok7AJaDMLc9LOuBDWkS1W5tPH3SuqS5 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PdT81M78R26jLKTiImggQbN4skb5QWAQT" From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <56F40540.6090600@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Anti-virus for FreeBSD References: <wu74mbwz4ah.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <44909.128.135.52.6.1458829510.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <44909.128.135.52.6.1458829510.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> --PdT81M78R26jLKTiImggQbN4skb5QWAQT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2016/03/24 14:25, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > (Is anybody in a mood of correcting me on the part > that we scan for viruses attacking something else not on MS products? A= re > there any? ;-) I believe that there is a growing corpus of Malware aimed at MacOS X, IOs and Android nowadays. Although nothing like as much as has been aimed at various Windows versions over the years. It's all down to how common those OSes are and whether the malware can achieve any sort of critical mass and whether it provides sufficient return for its authors. Of course, while FreeBSD is an unlikely target, it is certainly not immune. Nothing is. It's just it doesn't usually pay to attack FreeBSD machines because a) most FreeBSD users tend to pay more attention to security than your average machine-herder, and b) even if you do develop an interesting way of breaking into FreeBSD boxes, there aren't enough of them around to make them worthwhile as a target for recruiting into a botnet or the like. Also, since FreeBSD is pretty uncommon as a desktop sysetm, attacks on it that rely on end-users to click on things they shouldn't are pretty futile. Not when there's all those poorly written PHP applications and other network-exploitable code; a much more likely attack vector against FreeBSD -- but those tend not to require anti-virus software to defend against. Cheers, Matthew --PdT81M78R26jLKTiImggQbN4skb5QWAQT-- --Xvok7AJaDMLc9LOuBDWkS1W5tPH3SuqS5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJW9AVGXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQxOUYxNTRFQ0JGMTEyRTUwNTQ0RTNGMzAw MDUxM0YxMEUwQTlFNEU3AAoJEABRPxDgqeTnnIkQAKZiSaYeVHAfbY70XUJwZn6k mmijDo7HDluKBzwOwD7QEJOIc2vphBZ+ScOeO+lbPix3xYHHNUa+f64kQOlY8mNn 7iOdwM2/3ZTNlFPl1359YkgG8D6EOfY3J4BtJsnJnNDEmqAT+ik1bKmZAOpbeSlU iofmI2PKVP4p+KCNZV6eSpkdy4Vkt0rz+ZdIQrCK5ZvFlfjBY7gw/Y60QY4gnnZO chhcipkG64l2D+2dCpnuixVa1Oi08oSosZPDLPoe8ivIxtROKwm7Fe9/+w45YIsA PIsmy/EDFybdVdJ8jhqIZqg68y7GnN/BxMDOy6WGlEUpR31bA0L61oGqBp+79V1Z B1bZWmoj2w9ScN86RG6yRSddU1skbqFuJsT3gOc3YHdJptRQ4s5Q9oQln7Jb7q69 TBCGP3iEcE/XDK5eHh7IYR8q4NBaTVdvnpcKUEYGiPEp7fvdX/PBPnZJ7MIlQnMS DLDOGuKSo1BNz829kCoQYNEQNcv0DSw65cq5tZlkUlnwjxGlFts9JwHdW3XaEgQ5 mk/gOG7vHpf6IOgA4XojtbF22iuikeXSOa1w4HFea3djb4m6KhFEGm3CKP6UlPkY WQPFXkZGRVp9r4339cIEI/Wl8i8NyXPJAsOCKC9bvYXttWHfeLQzpo+BpQLFGi9A ycq4Ouzt3M7du7zgk+ek =D8Gk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Xvok7AJaDMLc9LOuBDWkS1W5tPH3SuqS5--
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