[Info-vax] Anti-virus ?

[Chris Townley]

On 11/08/2023 18:35, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-08-11, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> When it comes to the usage that is relevant for the topic
>> at hand, Linux is more like Windows. That is, has a lot of
>> single user systems having the usual tools like mail and
>> web browsers that are target channels for virus threats.
>>
>> So I understand that this is a concern around Linux users.
>>
>> But VMS does not have these envoronments with single user
>> systems running tools for mail or web browsing.
>>
>> Information targeting Linux is not always relevant for VMS.
>>
> 
> Linux is mainly a server operating system as is VMS.
> 
> Many attacks occur through server-based components in addition to
> client-based components.
> 
> The difference is that Linux has various industry-standard protections,
> including the third-party protections mentioned, that VMS does not.
> 
> Oh, and BTW, judging by the fact Eisner has needed to be rebooted multiple
> times over the years due to various services locking up presumably due to
> attacks, I have little confidence that VMS in general would be robust
> within an actively hostile environment.
> 
> Simon.
> 

In the commercial world Linux may be mostly server, but there are 
millions of home/hobby user of Linux on the desktop

-- 
Chris