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Re: [Clamav-users] PhishingScanURLs is dreadfully slow/CPU-intensive
From: Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt_at_nospam>Date: Fri Nov 09 2007 - 12:43:10 GMT
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
Joe Clements schrieb:
> For what it is worth, Linux will only forge ahead in the market by improvements in 2 areas. One of them is security.
I think you are wrong there. Security doesn't improve market share. Unixoid OSes have been much more secure than Windows since Windows was born, and look at their respective market shares now.
> Windows security has to have an anti virus, anti trojan, adware and malware protection, an anti browser hijacker, a rootkit checker, a secure firewall, and these are all separate programs. Pardon me if I missed one out. When Linux guarantees protection from all these threats in 1 package, then one major hurdle holding back a greater uptake of Linux will have been removed.
A properly configured Linux client system is already more secure against viruses, trojans, adware, malware, browser hijacking, rootkits and network attacks without any of these programs than a Windows system will ever be even with all of them. (Remember the viruses ClamAV checks for are *Windows* viruses. A unixoid OS doesn't run ClamAV for its own protection but for the protection of Windows clients.) Does that help its market penetration? Not in the least.
HTH
T.
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