Re: Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro on Sun Jul 28 2019 12:42 pm

 ER>> Hmmmm... I mean, the imposed requirements of even having to have
 ER>> "antivirus" software specifically is pretty much
degrading even the
 ER>> chances of having "better" in the vocabulary at all
when it comes to
 ER>> Windows. The fact you have to have something like that constantly
 ER>> running just to prevent both infection and spreading alone...

 TL> I have been pretty successful in the past at running Windows without
 TL> antivirus. 
 TL> One just have to be careful. :)

I don't even recommend anymore, most anti-virus solutions. The only one I
recommend anymore is Microsoft's, what was named "Security
Essentials" before,
not sure what Windows 10 renamed it to, but I recall they did rename it.
Windows Defender or something? 

A lot, pretty much darn well near all, started tapping directly raw into the
network layer, and interpret straight from that. Well, guess what most viruses,
malware, etc focus on a lot of? Interpretters. When you ADD an interpreter to
the raw sockets, you expose more direct and confrontational means to get right
down to the heart of the security tools. This is unwise, especially since
there's been many vulnerabilities in that front too. :)

 TL>>  ER> For me, it started being a real issue around Cinnamon 4.x,
 TL>> when it really started to get unstable. I've gone to using my old
 TL>> trusty XFCE which has never let me down. Unlike KDE, Gnome,
 TL>> Cinnamon, and pretty 
 TL>> much everything else to date actually, in terms of DE's.

 TL> Fair enough.

Yeah. I do definitely miss some of the greatness KDE had. I don't like that
Akonadi has become this monstrous beast of a thing that it probably should
never have become because it's become a nightmare to maintain as it is. I mean,
I even setup my mail servers to run Kolab, but now they've moved Kolab to being
this commercial thing and they're stopping to maintain the GPL release packages
they once did. So I'm going to eventually be tearing my mail server down and
rebuilding it completely without any dependancies for the current design
concepts. Build my own alternatives to some of the feastures Kolab provides,
and have something I can just use and use well. It's a work in progress on
that, but it'll definitely happen.

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