On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Renaud OLGIATI < ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:17 +0100 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 20:24:16 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > > > Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or > > > > for linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended > > > > antivirus for Debian? > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Required no, advised I guess. > > > You guessed wrong. > > Although I know that proof-of-concept viruses (virii ?) have been created > in computer labs, has anyone seen one alive in the wild ? Red Alert comes to mind immediately, and was a major pain in my ass working at Dotster in that company's early (about a decade before EIG bought 'em out and they were still based in Fort Vancouver's Five Corners neighborhood on WA 503) days. Script-kiddie launched rootkits and PHP-based spam scripts tend to be very prevalent and a daily nuisance for my userbase these days, though the former generally depends on weak root passwords or badly behaved daemons running as root and the latter gets limited to a single user account.
