Thread: Are there Maemo viruses? Is anti-virus software available or necessary?
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Crashdamage is offline Crashdamage
2009-11-29 , 15:29
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Originally Posted by God View Post
There's Linux/Unix based AV products. There's other ways to attack a system than getting through open ports. lolit
Those are for Linux servers, meant to protect the tender asses of Windows machines that connect to them. As has been said, there are no Linux viruses you need to worry about. In 9 years of Linux I've never used or needed AV protection.

There are several ways of attacking any OS. And Linux/Unix is not immune to everything. But Linux is is far, far more secure by nature than Windoze or even OS-X. Anti-Virus for Maemo would be pointless, a waste of CPU cycles and your money.

IOW, just don't worry about it. It's not Windoze...
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