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Originally Posted by Less
Too busy in another thread telling a newbie about his superior & unique job.
(Couldn't just have said, You're right job centres haven't got any decent jobs in).
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I never claimed my job to be superior or unique Less, perhaps you are getting desperate in your attempts to have a go at me.
Re "Virus", its not, its a trojan in the same manner that me telling people to right click their C drive and select "Format". the fleshy thing behind the keyboard should be the weak point in any system, Windows with its autorun/preview execution etc puts that weakness firmly in the OS space.
You seem to forget that even this 'expolit' requires downloads to be executed to 'prime/break/give over' the system. They NEED the fleshy thing to do it. Should we have desktop launchers, no I don't believe we should or certainly not in the manner they are currently. are they that bad, to some degree yes, they can lead to some action however as also mentioned in that article without Root privilage escalation the damage that can be caused is limited to the users data alone, not even other users data is accessible. The OS itself is protected unlike in Windows where by default the users run as Administrators. will you end up with an unbootable system? no, will you be able to set privilages for stuff that could affect other users of that system? no
Will Linux ever be susceptible to a hit like the "I LOVE YOU" virus? NO not ever.
do we need to educate users - Yes, stupidity is one thing, lack of education another.
The point is and the OP is looking for AV because they need/want to delegate the responsibility of securing an insecure system to something. Out the box Linux does not require anything except a modicum of education and common sense.