[PLUG] Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product (fwd)

[Petcher, Danielx J]

If you're networked, you are theoretically vulnerable to someone
invading your system from outside. (Though I'm sure you've got a
firewall of some sort, there may be a newly discovered vulnerability.)

If any computer behind your firewall is in a physically insecure area,
someone could theoretically gain control of it and insert malicious
code.

If there's a technically unsophisticated user (especially one whose
privileges are set too high) behind your firewall who can be tricked
into executing malicious code, someone could theoretically gain control
of your computer.

Nobody's perfectly safe, but a few common precautions can protect you
from the majority of threats.
-djp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Sawicki [mailto:ed at alcpress.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:59 AM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product
> (fwd)
> 
> On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 06:23, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > MICROSOFT TO KILL POPULAR LINUX ANTIVIRUS PRODUCT
> >      (Source: LinuxWorld.com) Users and resellers of RAV
> > AntiVirus, popular especially on Linux platforms, are in limbo
> > after Microsoft announced plans to buy the RAV technology from
> > Romania's GeCAD Software.
> > http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742532
> 
> I can't seem to come up with a scenario where I would
> care about this. Nothing I do here makes me vulnerable
> to viruses. My email program doesn't automatically run
> binary attachments, javascript, etc. I don't run FTP.
> I strictly control access via my firewall. I generally
> install new software from source. My desktop computer
> doesn't run any daemons that are better run on a server.
> My server daemons run as non-root and in a jail or
> on a separate computer or in a UML when that's not
> possible.
> 
> Is there a vulnerability I don't see?
> 
> --
> Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com>
> ALC