Just because your office is using Linux does not mean that you are always safe from malware. Today SearchOpenSource.com take a trip into the odds and ends of malware prevention.

Securing enterprise Linux desktops against hostile code has gotten easier, thanks to Ingo Molnar’s work on the NX enabler patch in Linux kernel 2.6.8 and processor-based, page protection mechanisms. The trick is in the execution, and, as usual, the Microsoft way probably is not the right choice.

Common IT wisdom calls for measuring computational performance by execution cycles and runtime efficiency, so it seems counterintuitive to gauge a processor by what it does not execute. This approach, however, brings a much-needed preventive capability to the desktop arena, one that has been used successfully on servers to fight malware. [Read the rest]

[tags]malware,fortifying linux,computational performance,runtime efficiency,preventive capability[/tags]