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[News] Linux Anti-virus is Actually for Windows

[Linux]: Do You Really Need Anti-Virus Software?

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| When a seasoned Windows user first migrates to Linux, the first question is 
| always “where is the anti-virus?” I have been asked this question countless  
| time and were always given the “you are lying to me” kind of look when I told 
| them that they don’t need anti-virus software in Linux.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| You will definitely need an anti-virus software if you are setting up a file 
| server with your machine. In situation where you are running Samba or NFS 
| servers, there is a possibility that the virus residing on your machine can 
| infect the Windows PC in your network. In cases where you might have 
| documents in undocumented, vulnerable Microsoft formats, such as Word and 
| Excel, that contain viruses, you definitely want to eradicate them before you 
| share the documents with your counterparts that are running Windows. Having 
| an anti-virus software at check can definitely reduce the chance of your 
| Linux machine becoming a virus propagator.        
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http://maketecheasier.com/linux-do-you-really-need-anti-virus-software/2008/04/28


Recent:

Schneier: Lots of Security Software Is 'snake Oil'

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| IDG News Service: So what do you think is the biggest threat right now?
| 
| Schneier: Crime.
| 
| IDG News Service: So how do you fix it? It's expensive to investigate, it's 
| cross-jurisdictional. 
| 
| Schneier: It might not be fixable. A lot of [the solution] is going to be 
| making the things that criminals are going after harder to get. You're not 
| going to stop the criminals.   
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144938/schneier_lots_of_security_software_is_snake_oil.html


Related:

Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests

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| Top tier anti-virus vendors including McAfee, Trend Micro, and Sophos all 
| failed to secure Windows Vista SP1 in recent independent tests. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/vista_sp1_av_tests/


Does antivirus have a future?

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| Peter Gutmann, a researcher at the University of Auckland who presented the 
| results of a study of the commercial market for malware at August's Defcon, 
| estimates that a good virus programmer can make as much as $200,000 a year 
| (here, a 660KB PDF). Alan Cox, an open-source security researcher, points out 
| some additional possibilities. One is malware designed to sit under today's 
| virtual machines. A proof-of-concept paper proposing such an attack, called 
| Subvirt (PDF), appeared last year, written by three researchers from 
| Microsoft and two from the University of Michigan. A presentation at last 
| year's Black Hat security conference from Joanna Rutkowska, a researcher at 
| Coseinc, a Singapore-based security company, covered a much leaner attack she 
| called Blue Pill, which targets the virtualisation built into Windows Vista 
| and into current processors from both AMD and Intel.           
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.spam


Is an antivirus gap looming?

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| The failure of antivirus companies to adapt to the dramatic malware 
| appearance rates in 2007 tells us there's time for a change and there's room  
| for a new class of tools. "AV is dead" is the battle cry of a new industry 
| analyst report. Antivirus companies may not be going the way of the dodo, but 
| to many customers, the concept of antivirus as the last line of defense has 
| been thrown out the window. It's time for a better approach, one that can 
| keep up and really defend networks.     
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http://news.com.com/2010-7348_3-6195322.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news


Predicting the demise of antivirus apps

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| "It's the beginning of the end for antivirus," says Robin Bloor, partner
| at consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, who adds he began his
| "antivirus is dead" campaign a year ago and feels even more strongly
| about it today. "I'm going to keep beating this drum. The approach
| antivirus vendors take is completely wrong. The criminals working to
| release these viruses against computer users are testing against
| antivirus software. They know what works and how to create variants."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/0047A206FF40A92ECC2572C3000FD867

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