Is it possible to make a virus free environment?????
By balaji_sp
@balaji_sp (105)
India
10 responses
@abednego7 (1060)
• Philippines
8 Jun 07
I guess no just consider this blog I get from other website and hopefully will add some light in your thoughts:
These days it seems the people most vocal about their operating system is the Linux community. In my job I've come across people claiming Linux is unbreakable. Perhaps...perhaps not. The same goes for the Mac. Someone once told me of an anti-virus companies that was reportedly no longer selling Mac AV software, because there were no Mac viruses.
But let's be realistic. Any OS that comes under the same scrutiny as Windows XP is sure to reveal its shortcomings. The only reason the Mac, or Linux doesn't have viruses is that they don't get much exposure. Not enough users. Commercially-driven hackers are far more likely to make a killing duping Windows users. Any software firm claiming they no longer produce anti-virus for the Mac (or for that matter, Linux) is simply saying, "There's not enough users out there for us to justify developing Mac (or Linux) versions." http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/IT-FUD-blog/2007/05/no-such-thing-as-a-virus-free-operating-system.html
Well logically I believe in what he said.
@ocalhoun (199)
• United States
12 Jun 07
Another reason Linux has no viruses is that only the root user can install software, or make critical changes. As long as you don't make a habit of always logging in as root, linux is very secure. There are virus scanners for linux; these scanners are used to scan for Windows viruses, before the files are sent to windows computers.
Another way to get absolutely virus free: Deep Freeze.
Deep Freeze is a program that resets you hard drive to a preset state every time you boot up: therefore, if anything goes wrong, reboot and you have a fresh start. Disadvantage: you can't save anything on that hard drive.
@drim1020 (19)
• Philippines
28 Jun 07
Well if others says no i think i can say yes! :) well it is possible to have a virus free environment, by using deepfreeze. Deepfreeze keeps a image of your hardrive so everytime you boot or reboot your pc it will load the image thus any changes made while using your computer will be undone once you reboot. If your using deepfreeze you must have two partitions, one for your operating system and the other for your important files.
@titaniumsoul (1191)
• Singapore
26 Jun 07
It is possible if nobody knows how to write a virus program.
@santuccie (3384)
• United States
8 Jun 07
In all likelihood, no. Some of the code out there these days is extremely well written. As it were, there are software engineers (engineers, not just programmers) on the "dark side," and they're not slacking one bit.
There are ways to secure a machine quite well, though hardly foolproof. And the tighter your security is, the more restricted you are as well.
Here's what I do with my machines: I have a firewall with IPS (Intrusion Prevention Systems), to block known malicious protocols; as well as antivirus and antispyware with automatic updating, scheduled scanning, real-time monitoring, and e-mail scanning (I use Thunderbird to access my e-mail, so I need POP3 scanning).
I also use Arovax Shield to block changes to browser and system settings, and advanced file permissions to lock my system32 (critical Windows drivers) folder to read-only. As it were, my existing security gives my XP machine perfect scores across the board in PC Security Test 2006 (see picture). I could do more, but it would only make it more difficult for me to make changes when I want to.
@soulkeeper16 (1814)
• India
25 Jun 07
I have no idea. But sadly i will have to say the awnser is no. Because there are lots of computer genius out there some of which are good and some are bad and i don't think any of them will change for worlds goodness.
@Luckykid_Rishi (424)
• India
7 Jun 07
No I don't think so bcz there are lot of people who r continously involved in breaching the security thru viruses and they r extremely intelligent so it is almost impossinble to completely chk them but we can take sum concrete steps in the way to make our communication channels free from virus hazards. We can deploy several softwares and antiviruses that will be totally dedicated to remove the security breches upto the highest extent.
@youless (112483)
• Guangzhou, China
7 Jun 07
I don't think it's possible. Many people do it for fun or for the profit.
@dreamer1234 (19)
• India
7 Jun 07
impossible... till the virus writing group realise the difficulties, anti virus software keep on comes........