Linus Torvalds has created a patch to allow a cross platform virus to function correctly on modern Linux kernels.
Not only that, but the anti-viral industry aka hype-wagon has been flying this virus from the flagpoles and shouting from the rooftops that people should be buying their antivirus products to run on Linux.
Leave it to open source hackers to debug and fix aging viral code so that it works correctly. And shame on the anti-viral industry, Kaspersky Lab in particular, for its attempts to deceive the public by passing off old code as something new.
Now there are good reasons why you might want to run an AV product on Linux, but for the most part it is to protect windows systems that may be using the Linux system as a file server.
I suppose the handful of virii that work on Linux need to be looked out for also, but come on… we just need a distibution to come along that chroot/jails all services aggressively and makes it easy to add/change/delete/manage those chroot/jail/whatever. That includes a way to have a Linux user’s browser run under it’s own protected chroot/chail/whatever thing without making it too hard to actually use.
Hmm.
vmware player browser appliance seems to meet the safe-browser-environment requirement . . .
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