Anti-virus for Linux - is it time? Will it ever be?

[Chris Gehlker]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:59 PM, JT Moree wrote:

> Anti-virus is ineffective.  It deals with a symptom while ignoring the
> real problem.  That is: attack vectors on a system.
>
> By the time anti-virus does its job your system is already  
> compromised.
> IMHO a compromised system is NEVER trustworthy and I would not  
> continue
> to use it.
>
> I don't run anti-virus on windows or linux because I'm very careful
> about what services and code I run and keeping up to date on patches.

This attitude is fine for a personal system but I don't know anyone  
running a public facing commercial server with any form of *nix who is  
not running ClamAV.
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