Cheers!
El lun., may. 7, 2018 10:02, Gabriel Thullen <gabriel(a)thullen.com> escribió:
I am also a Linux advocate, and have been so for
years (decades?). That
been said, I imagine that there are still more people using Windows XP than
there are people using Linux. Last time I checked (october 2017) it was
something like 5% using XP and less than 1% using linux, all distros
included. We can safely predict that virus outvreaks will be a problem for
linux once it reaches 5% or 10% market share...
Gabe
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Shabab Mustafa <shabab.mustafa(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I have been a Linux advocate for almost a decade
now and from 'my past
experience', I can tell you have opened a topic of a huge discussion
about
people should switch to Linux Desktops (which is
off-topic here). But I
respectfully disagree with your statement, "anti-virus programs usually
do
more harm than good".
From a conservative viewpoint, some protection is still better to have
than
no protection at all. And the example you gave
here, an anti-virus
mistakenly classified your domain as a potential threat, makes a weaker
point. By a few mistakes, we cannot cancel out a million of other
successes. A false alarm is yet favourable than no alarm at all.
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Shabab Mustafa
President
Wikimedia Bangladesh
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:56 PM Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2018 19:27:16 -0500
> John Bennett <jbennett(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Many of you may have been receiving emails in the last 24 hours
warning
> you
> > of "Multiple failed attempts to log in" with your account. I wanted
to
> let
> > you know that the Wikimedia Foundation's Security team is aware of
the
>
situation, and working with others in the organization on steps to
decrease
> the success of attacks like these.
>
> The exact source is not yet known, but it is not originating from our
> systems. That means it is an external effort to gain unauthorized
access
> to
> > random accounts. These types of efforts are increasingly common for
> > websites of our reach. A vast majority of these attempts have been
> > unsuccessful, and we are reaching out personally to the small number
of
> > accounts which we believe have been
compromised.
> >
> > While we are constantly looking at improvements to our security
systems
> and
> > processes to offset the impact of malicious efforts such as these,
the
best
> method of prevention continues to be the steps each of you take to
> safeguard your accounts. Because of this, we have taken steps in the
past
> to support things like stronger password
requirements,[1] and we
continue
> to encourage everyone to take some routine
steps to maintain a secure
> computer and account. That includes regularly changing your
passwords,[2]
> actively running antivirus software on your
systems, and keeping your
> system software up to date.
>
From my experience, anti-virus programs usually do more harm than
good.
For
> example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_AntiVirus recently
blocked
> my
> entire
shlomifish.org domain because it apparently misclassified an
> executable
> download as problematic (and it was built from source using
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMake and
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppVeyor
> so it is unlikely that that is the case.). MS Windows' poor resistance
to
malware
and the fact that Windows Update is so dysfunctional (see
http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Windows-Update/ ) are the
reasons
why I cannot recommend running it as a desktop, and instead one should
use
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Desktop - desktop linux or
similar.
>
> A little off topic perhaps, but needs to be said.
>
> > My team will continue to investigate this incident, and report back
if
we
> notice any concerning changes. If you have
any questions, please
contact
> the Support and Safety team
(susa{{(a)}}wikimedia.org).
>
> John Bennett
> Director of Security, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Password_strength_requirements
> [2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ChangePassword
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