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There may not be any viruses yet...There may not be any viruses yet...Posted Feb 20, 2003 20:26 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: There may not be any viruses yet... by hazelsct Parent article: Lindows sells virus protection In that case, though, you should update your OpenOffice, fixing the actual bug rather than using a virus scanner to stop a particular exploit of that bug. After all, if there's a virus which exploits a bug (or feature) in your software, a scanner might catch that virus, but it won't catch a different exploit for the bug or an exploit which arrives in a different fashion (you might download it by ftp or get it from an NFS mount, perhaps). The reason to have a virus scanner is to try to deal with a bad design, where an exploit cannot be prevented by bug fixing; DOS viruses exploited the inability of DOS to prevent programs from modifying each other, Word viruses exploit the inability of Word to restrict macros to safe actions, etc. Linux as a whole is better designed (the user can't write to most programs) and Linux software is generally better designed.
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