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Skriven 2005-11-01 15:33:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVID DRUMMOND
Ärende: software for linspire
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Hello David - 

TA>>> I am not aware of an adquete firewall of antivirus
TA>>> protection in my linspire OS system similar to that I
TA>>> have for my windose systems, 

CA>> Anti-virus software exists for linux but most linux users
CA>> are like those 'snake-handler' religious fanatics. They
CA>> don't expect to be bitten _ever_. :-) 

DD> And we don't. 

"Haven't" might be closer to the truth. 

DD> The only confession you can find is this old bloke - who
DD> admits to not knowing bugger all about Linux, 

"Knowing all about linux" would require more than just
installing, reformatting the drive, re-installing, and so
forth. Before I would claim to "know all" I would have to spend
considerable time reading the source code for the kernel and
asking some questions (and, hopefully, receiving answers) until
I had a clear understanding of what the kernel normally is
doing or attempting to do while linux is executing on my
machine. Probably would want to get a good understanding of
linux drivers and a few other support (GNU) utilities and
_then_ I might claim to "know all" when discussing linux. Even
then I think I'd be more inclined to say I knew "a great deal"
about linux rather than "all". :-) 

DD> and probably wouldn't recognise a virus if it did bite him. 

I've only had two, maybe three virus in over 20 years and never
actually "saw" any of them. All I could think of was getting
rid of them at the time and software was telling me they were
there. I did not try to make copies or reverse engineer the
code, I just tried to remove/erase it. The "Monkey" virus
required a special program written by some college professor
(if I recall accurately) to remove it and I was just happy when
it was gone. The 'symptoms' came on slowly over a period of
days until the machine was unusable but they were varied, or
seemed so at the time, and I couldn't really pinpoint what to
look for to know it's there. The others were spotted by
anti-virus software and removed by same before I noticed much
of anything going wrong. 

I've never downloaded any virus 'code' and never discussed
writing virus code as programmer to programmer which means I'm
a bit ignorant of just what they are doing that qualifies them
as a 'virus'. Way back when they were more-or-less practical
jokes that put cuss words on the screen or "gotcha" and became
an embarrassment more than a danger.

What I'm saying is that I'm never 100% certain that there are
no virus on my machine. I have to trust software to tell me
if/when a virus arrives and I don't poke around looking at them
I just remove them which means I wouldn't "recognize" a virus
either. :-) 

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