anti-virus companies, please stay away from Linux

Posted Mar 18, 2004 15:19 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: anti-virus companies, please stay away from Linux by eru
Parent article: Mainstream means more malicious code for Linux (SearchSecurity.com)

StackGuard techniques?

I'd say that on distros that aren't targeted at slow systems, the ~5% overhead imposed by SSP/ProPolice/StackGuard and the like are entirely worth it, such that the biggest problem with them is the draining of /dev/random that they cause (32 bytes read from there for canary seeding whenever a process starts)...

... but even given that, and even given that I use it on my firewalls, I *still* think it's an ineleggant kludge, and there Must Be a Better Way.

(Well, there is. Stop using C...)