Re: Begs a question: AV in Linux

Out of curiosity, what was the situation around a hacker actively arp spoofing on your net targetting your boxes? It takes a certain level of sophistication to set up a DNS server, the necassary port forwards from the "router", and the trojan file server for the package. I have always espoused that security should be balanced with the potential motivation for a skilled hacker to target you, why did a hacker target you? Note that I am not saying using the dsniff package or even manually sending the arp replies takes skill but it does (AFAIK) take a human.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Sergiy Michka wrote:

Alexander Klimov schrieb: 
 On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Benson, Sean M wrote:

> Should you run an anti-virus on linux for non-work issues?
> (Just home Workstations, Laptops, etc.. not mail servers.)


 Just answer the following question: have you ever seen a virus which
 has infected your linux box? If the answer is no (and I guess this is
 the case) then it is pointless to install an anti-virus for internal
 use.


I didnt had any virus on my linux boxes but I got a rootkit vie arp spoofing from internal network on 2 debian boxes (ignored the warning from apt-get, that the checksum from one package was wrong.. after that I got SIGSEGV with aptitude and got kernel based rootkit installed).

Maybe it wouldnt happen to me, if I would have a good and working Antivir on the boxes or would have more brain to stop installation from such one package..


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