Virus Protection


zohnnyg

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do we need or will we recieve any sort of virus protection or any other security features for pandora?
 
Seeing as this is a Linux device I think it won't be strictly needed, but I do hope that the default user (the one you create at first boot) will not be running with administrative rights by default (but rather, get them when they're needed similar to how it's done in Ubuntu or Win7).
 
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Love It!




"#!/bin/bash
while true
do
echo "Scanning... Viruses found so far: 0"
sleep 5
done

exit 0

theres your virus scanner"




HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
 
I hate having to sudo everything. It's really pointless when you just sudo everything as a reflexive habit. It's like Vista UAC. You see that dumb crap pop up and you click "allow". It's only useful if you are assuming people are paying attention to what they're doing, which they likely are not.

rm -rf /

--- you need to be administrator to do that

/me presses up then home then types "sudo " and hits enter without reading previous command.

I'm not saying this happens all the time, just that it does happen.
 
Thanks to the pnd system, there should be very little that an average user needs to do that requires administrative privileges. Generally, linux malware has to be installed and run manually, and if it's in user mode, it can't cause too many problems. So in general, don't touch the command line unless you know what you're doing.
 
rabidpoobear said:
I hate having to sudo everything. It's really pointless when you just sudo everything as a reflexive habit. It's like Vista UAC. You see that dumb crap pop up and you click "allow". It's only useful if you are assuming people are paying attention to what they're doing, which they likely are not.

rm -rf /

--- you need to be administrator to do that

/me presses up then home then types "sudo " and hits enter without reading previous command.

I'm not saying this happens all the time, just that it does happen.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of how it works in Ubuntu, where you can open a root terminal, and when you do that you get asked for your password (unless you've already given it when starting Synaptic or whatever other app requires root privileges) and there's no "sudo" needed within that terminal. I think it works fine, you generally only need to "sudo" once during a session (which is brilliant compared to Vista's crappy UAC). It beats running as root all the time, anyway.
 
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kingoddball said:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Love It!




"#!/bin/bash
while true
do
echo "Scanning... Viruses found so far: 0"
sleep 5
done

exit 0

theres your virus scanner"




HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
:lol:
 
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kingoddball said:

"#!/bin/bash
while true
do
echo "Scanning... Viruses found so far: 0"
sleep 5
done

exit 0

Sir, this is a serious matter. I work for Norton and this looks like a blatant ripoff of our Anti-Virus software. I am currently writing a DMCA takedown notice as we own the rights to this main loop. I will see you in court.
 
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rabidpoobear said:
/me presses up then home then types "sudo " and hits enter without reading previous command.
Try to use "sudo !!" to save a lot of time.

zhasha said:
kingoddball said:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
echo "Scanning... Viruses found so far: 0"
sleep 5
done

exit 0
Sir, this is a serious matter. I work for Norton and this looks like a blatant ripoff of our Anti-Virus software. I am currently writing a DMCA takedown notice as we own the rights to this main loop. I will see you in court.
Hey, I have the copyright on that code! Who are you to issue a DMCA take down notice to someone who has pirated my software! I deserve that privilege, thank you very much!

I won't allow that someone gets the punishment that is rightfully mine, especially now when I've managed to include some code from Windows Defender in my program, too:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
  echo "Scanning... Viruses found so far: 0"
  dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null iflag=sync bs=10M &
done

exit 0
(this is from the "\main\defcon-4\windows-genuine-advantage\DskXpLoder-bsod.sh" file; court, take note)
 
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ClamAV
I plan on porting it so I can connect my Pandora to the company network. Corporate policy says all computers on the network must have antivirus software. And it's fair. In the case of Linux and non-x86 systems, they aren't actually worried about the system getting a virus, but that it may accidentally contain a Windows virus that I then could upload to the network unaware. Like if I'm working on a document at home, copy it to my Pandora to bring to work, copy it into my home folder here, and then continue working on it and BAM, home virus becomes work virus.
They can't dictate that you use virus protection at home, so the intermediary is important.
 
Wouldn't your work computer detect the virus as soon as you tried to open the document? I mean, I assume your work computer has a virus scanner at least...
 
DasFool said:
Wouldn't your work computer detect the virus as soon as you tried to open the document? I mean, I assume your work computer has a virus scanner at least...
Maybe, maybe not. Two points of failure is better than one.
 
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dflemstr said:
rabidpoobear said:
/me presses up then home then types "sudo " and hits enter without reading previous command.
Try to use "sudo !!" to save a lot of time.

zhasha said:
kingoddball said:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
echo "Scanning... Viruses found so far: 0"
sleep 5
done

exit 0
Sir, this is a serious matter. I work for Norton and this looks like a blatant ripoff of our Anti-Virus software. I am currently writing a DMCA takedown notice as we own the rights to this main loop. I will see you in court.
Hey, I have the copyright on that code! Who are you to issue a DMCA take down notice to someone who has pirated my software! I deserve that privilege, thank you very much!

I won't allow that someone gets the punishment that is rightfully mine, especially now when I've managed to include some code from Windows Defender in my program, too:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
  echo "Scanning... Viruses found so far: 0"
  dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null iflag=sync bs=10M &
done

exit 0
(this is from the "\main\defcon-4\windows-genuine-advantage\DskXpLoder-bsod.sh" file; court, take note)

Hah, no wonder your virus scanner is so slow - you're bundling the whole UNIX environment.
Our virus scanner (whose name I prefer not disclose) does it like this

Code:
@ECHO OFF
SET X=0
FOR /R \ %%V in (*) DO CALL:SCAN "%%V"
GOTO END
:SCAN
CLS
ECHO.Scanning %~1
COPY "%~1" NUL>NUL
GOTO:EOF
:END
CLS
CALL:SCAN Complete
ECHO.%X% viruses found found

Our code is also vastly superior because it's in all-caps.
 
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