Thread: Very Intrusive Virus: Caution

Originally Posted by Mario92

Yup, having two ANTIVIRUS programs is very, very bad. Spybot, Ad-Aware, etc are ANTI-MALWARE programs, and it's actually recommended that you have at least three of these installed.

http://www.smartcomputing.com/editor...8s07/38s07.asp

Three? Seems excessive...

Originally Posted by Marvo

khh, Ynot is talking about Linux in his post on the ubuntu forums, not Mac OSX. Where have you read that Mac OSX has as many security flaws as Windows? That can't be right.

Thougt he spoke of security in a more general way.
At any rate...
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securit...9234678,00.htm
http://news.techworld.com/security/1...-myth-exposed/

Originally Posted by khh

Three? Seems excessive...


Thougt he spoke of security in a more general way.
At any rate...
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securit...9234678,00.htm
http://news.techworld.com/security/1...-myth-exposed/

Those articles are old and thus invalid. The world of security is constantly changing and adapting.

UNIX's major security feature is it's file permissions, that hasn't changed in 30 years.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

UNIX's major security feature is it's file permissions, that hasn't changed in 30 years.

I must admit, the file permission system of Unix and Linux' way of handling user acounts is simply superb.

I'm too shy of hubris to attribute it to anything but luck, but in 6+ years of running my own Windows machines, I have yet to get a virus that affected my system in any way. I just run AVG and Windows Defender, and when I was running XP I almost always went without a firewall.

I set up Ubuntu on a cheap laptop a few years ago, and after the honeymoon it struck me as much more high-maintenance than Windows, and quite hit-or-miss with hardware compatibility. I've used Mac for school and work periodically, and it was just the opposite: too idiot-proof, meaning I couldn't fix things if I didn't like them. For me, Windows is a nice middle ground where, yeah, you have to remember to change the oil, but you don't need to learn how to rebuild the engine to get a turn signal working.