XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.crime, alt.sci.security   
   XPost: alt.comp.anti-virus   
   From: erratic@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   Dänk 42Ø formulated the question :   
   > On 12/08/2012 11:14 PM, MattB wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:54:02 -0600, G. Morgan   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Dänk 42Ø wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> That American computer "security" companies would cooperate with spy   
   >>>> agencies upset me, so I began using Avira, made by a German company.   
   >>>> Germans are obsessively paranoid by nature, which is why I trust   
   >>>> their security software   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> It won't detect Spectre   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> What security program do you think is best?   Avira had some mediocre   
   >> reviews.   
   >   
   > Reviews probably written by the CIA.   
      
   LOL   
      
   [...]   
      
   > Now that I have switched to Linux I have no need for anti-virus software.   
      
   Why is that?   
      
   > There is an anti-virus program for Linux called "Clam," but my latest scan   
   > revealed nothing.   
      
   I wonder if it is *still* as limited in scope as it always has been in   
   the past.   
      
   >  Unix is inherently secure by design,   
      
   How so?   
      
   An OS's primary function is to help facilitate the execution of user's   
   choice programs. Much malware is executed due to bad choices, it's not   
   always about software vulnerability exploits. Even so, *nix isn't   
   immune to those either.   
      
   > unlike Wind*ze which acts like a virus itself.   
      
   LOL   
      
   > Clam is mostly used   
   > to scan e-mail attachments that might be forwarded to vulnerable   
   > Wind*ze systems.   
      
   Yes, as I understand it, it was designed for e-mail vector malware   
   specifically and attempts to cover those well while the same malware   
   arriving via some other vectors might be detected just as well in an   
   overlap condition.   
      
   [...]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)