[vox-tech] linux and viruses

[Alex Mandel]

Richard Crawford wrote:

>On Saturday 25 February 2006 10:55, Alex Mandel wrote:
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>>I've had the same problem with Norton Anit-virus scans. I want it to
>>scan when I'm not at work but that means I have to lock my station, if  
>>I log out it won't run until I log back in. Utterly useless.
>>My best guess is that these software components are not services, and
>>therefore can't run without a user logged in.
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>You guys are both lucky.  I had to fight tooth and nail to get AdAware, SpyBot 
>S&D, and AV software installed on my work computer and usable with my 
>ordinary user account (our IT department insists that your Windows box is 
>only at risk when you're running as an administrator).
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>Tuesday we've got a mandatory desktop security class taught by these same 
>people.  My boss and I are both going to have a really hard time to keep from 
>heckling.
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Your right, I'm lucky that our IT installs Spybot and some other 
proprietary(paid) anti-spyware. The irony is, everyone runs as a local 
Admin otherwise we'd never get anywhere, especially my group which does 
GIS, Statistics and R&D. So in a sense we're always at risk. I just wish 
they would enforce strong passwords to prevent silly things like a worm 
a few months ago that moved through networked drives since most 
passwords are from a common dictionary.

A Class would be nice for new employees too, but I work for the 
government there's no budget for that.

Alex