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Clam or Klam? Either Way, It's Easy Linux Protection |
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Source: Tech News World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Though you're probably less likely to find yourself riddled with malware if you're running Linux rather than Windows, that doesn't mean security software should be ignored entirely. ClamTK -- or KlamAV, depending on which environment you use -- gives your Linux PC an antimalware guard dog that goes beyond the old "security by obscurity" strategy.
Have you run a virus scan lately? Nope? Don't need to, you say. That's because you run a Linux OS.
Think again. To quote the title line of Bob Dylan's third studio album, "the times they are a-changin.'"
Yes they are. And part of that change is the greater risk of malware attacks to the Linux operating system. It used to be that Linux was so iron-clad safe security-wise that virus intrusions did not exist.
Used-to-be has now given way to possibly maybe. The rallying cry among security experts in the past was simply that using a Linux OS -- or Mac OS X -- gave your built-in security by obscurity.
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