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- Aug 30, 2012
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Really informative video with a lot of explanation how&why, thank you @illumination 
More then welcome.. I wanted to thank this gentleman for taken the time to correct statements that as he said come out of the community that are just false, by helping share his time spent showing how..Really informative video with a lot of explanation how&why, thank you @illumination
- Dec 14, 2014
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Good video and He is on target for most things. He is right about inaccurate information on many Linux community websites that are copy/paste information from old days when the thing were accurate or mostly accurate.
On malware it is a little dodgy comment.
He scanned and found windows oriented files on his drive which could be (are) infected, that does not prove that Linux OS itself is infected. You can copy infected windows files on your hard drive with Linux installed and try to run and you would get info that it cannot be run. Exotic cross platform malware or pure Linux based malware is known but very rare and are more inclined on phishing and conning the user to run file with root privileges so that Linux OS could be infected.
So how did exe and dll file got on his SSD, where is this Imagination program coming from, official repo or some dodgy website.
Windows and Linux file fragmentation complete diferent thing, but His statement that even Linux files get fragmented is true.
He is right about UUID and swapping hardware on current computer configurations.
On malware it is a little dodgy comment.
He scanned and found windows oriented files on his drive which could be (are) infected, that does not prove that Linux OS itself is infected. You can copy infected windows files on your hard drive with Linux installed and try to run and you would get info that it cannot be run. Exotic cross platform malware or pure Linux based malware is known but very rare and are more inclined on phishing and conning the user to run file with root privileges so that Linux OS could be infected.
So how did exe and dll file got on his SSD, where is this Imagination program coming from, official repo or some dodgy website.
Windows and Linux file fragmentation complete diferent thing, but His statement that even Linux files get fragmented is true.
He is right about UUID and swapping hardware on current computer configurations.
- Mar 15, 2011
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I should agree to @Vipersd, Linux AV today are pack with windows based definition because it includes any infection rate when use the emulator; by default its environment may not be totally infected.
Tmp (Temporary files) isn't yet considered to be infected, unless its been drop some files on crucial directory.
Tmp (Temporary files) isn't yet considered to be infected, unless its been drop some files on crucial directory.
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Hello,
Like any system it can be infected if people do stupid things.
It's verry hard to get infected with a well-configured firewall, selinux, ptrace restriction, etc...
Antivirus on Linux are just useless unless you had a computer with Windows ^^
It's you launch an .exe on Linux with Wine, if your system is correcly configured, it can't acces to your browser or other software.
If you have a ssd, it's just useless to defrag the disk and for a normal disk it's useless too with ext4 if it has been correctly created and mounted.
Like any system it can be infected if people do stupid things.
It's verry hard to get infected with a well-configured firewall, selinux, ptrace restriction, etc...
Antivirus on Linux are just useless unless you had a computer with Windows ^^
It's you launch an .exe on Linux with Wine, if your system is correcly configured, it can't acces to your browser or other software.
If you have a ssd, it's just useless to defrag the disk and for a normal disk it's useless too with ext4 if it has been correctly created and mounted.
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In the video, he explains that he is not running wine or any other windows components of any kind. Yet, upon installing Imagination, he found in two of its temporary files, two windows based trojans. After looking up this DVD software program "Imagination" and going to Source forge to check it out, Ublock, stopped me from accessing the page..
Now this is probably where terminology comes into play, and how ones perspective of it may differ..
With humans, one can carry a disease without actually being sick, and is still considered "infected".. I would assume this applies to computers as well, if they were to carry a piece of malware, without it being active on that particular system, it could still be considered "Infected"
A question up above, and a very good one, is why did the two pieces of windows based malware sitting in temp files for the program, stop it from opening and being used on linux..
Bottom line, is that there are many that claim, linux never gets infected, you never need to scan it, or worry, and that is just plain wrong, and the point that he was trying to present in the video.
Now this is probably where terminology comes into play, and how ones perspective of it may differ..
With humans, one can carry a disease without actually being sick, and is still considered "infected".. I would assume this applies to computers as well, if they were to carry a piece of malware, without it being active on that particular system, it could still be considered "Infected"
A question up above, and a very good one, is why did the two pieces of windows based malware sitting in temp files for the program, stop it from opening and being used on linux..
Bottom line, is that there are many that claim, linux never gets infected, you never need to scan it, or worry, and that is just plain wrong, and the point that he was trying to present in the video.
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