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Old 11-06-2007, 11:26 AM   #16
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I have googled around. It depends on how you handle security. On our systems we only allow very few people rights above the normal users. Those people are bright enough and skilled enough not to be a risk. Allowing people who do not understand what they are doing, to have those capabilities is (in a lot of peoples opinion) the real security risk.


It is very difficult to write a program that functions correctly on a wide variety of distros. The companies are not intentionally causing problems with installs but they have been know to do so. One example that come to mind would be Nvidia's drivers a couple of years ago. On some distros (Fedora for one) these drivers replaced components of the install that caused compatibility problems that were very difficult to track down. The work arounds were fairly simple, if you knew that they were needed. Last I heard Nvidia had corrected the problem.

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Old 11-15-2007, 02:48 PM   #17
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The last two posts are missing the point. The user already has a virus scanner installed.

When you say running it from a root terminal "doesn't work", what do you mean? What particular error message does trying it result in? Just "doesn't work" is not enough information.
Sorry, I posted and meant that running the updates *do* work in terminal as su. I was asking if I could run the updates by changing permissions without updating as su in terminal.

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Old 11-15-2007, 11:31 PM   #18
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No offense keeper...use Clam Anti virus...It's make for linux and I don't trust anything I can't see in source code, that's why I am using slackware and I compile everything that comes... I have control, not some bureaucracy that only thinks of their pocket books. *stepping off soap box* I can help you if you used clam, as you can tell most linux users don't use an antivirus and those who do are too paranoid to use closed source.
 
Old 11-16-2007, 01:22 PM   #19
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I was asking if I could run the updates by changing permissions without updating as su in terminal.

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You cold change the permission of the AVG update folder, but this is probably not the best solution.

You should probably run AVG as root anyway. Remember that it can only scan files that it can read, so if it's run as a restricted user it won't be able to scan the whole computer. If AVG is run as root then the "update" command will work as designed.

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No offense keeper...use Clam Anti virus...It's make for linux and I don't trust anything I can't see in source code, that's why I am using slackware and I compile everything that comes... I have control, not some bureaucracy that only thinks of their pocket books. *stepping off soap box* I can help you if you used clam, as you can tell most linux users don't use an antivirus and those who do are too paranoid to use closed source.
You seem to be under the impression that all non-open source software is automatically malware. This is far from true.
 
Old 11-18-2007, 04:23 PM   #20
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Okay, remember I'm really new at this. I recently upgraded to fedora core 8. I saw klamav in the upgrade, removed AVG and installed klamav... I like it. I noticed that the klamav setup asked to choose an email client (kmail or ximian evolution). I have kde desktop installed so I chose kmail, however, my email client says evolution 2.12.1... Did I choose correctly? I'm rather puzzled because I'm unsure of the dif between kde and gnome desktop environments.

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