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Antivirus
Posted: 13 Nov 2007, 15:32
by Xargon
Hi,
probably a noob-question again but is there any efficient antivirus programs to use on bubba?
Is there even a virus threat for this little, linux dream-machine?
BR,
Xargon
Posted: 19 Nov 2007, 02:53
by pa
The actual virus threat is rather small for bubba since very few user files are acually executed on bubba. Bubba can hold infected files for you, just as any harddrive, but in these cases Bubba should mainly be seen as "just a harddrive".
What can be done is that some exploits can be used to run foregin code on bubba, that is using some sercurity hole in any of the services open to the internet (usually mail, ssh and web), but since most attacks are targeted towards windows machines and then machines running on an x86 cpu, the most likely outcome would be that the application that was hacked will crash since the cpu can not run x86 code.
/PA