Shlomi,
I believe that the problem is with your particular brand of antivirus,
eventhough they all block a bit more or less to prevent certain risks.
Nevertheless, making an extrapolation to every antivirus from the
experience with only one brand, and concluding "they do more harm than
good" based on that, seems a bit off.
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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