[Owncloud] Owncloud 5 and Antivirus App

[Bernhard Posselt]

On 03/14/2013 10:20 AM, Christian Hügel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first of all thank you for this awesome release. We all appreciate the 
> hard work you put into it.
> After upgrading i tried the new Antivirus app but for a strange reason 
> I cannot activate it. Here´s the log:
>
> {"app":"core","message":"App can't be installed because it is not 
> compatible with this version of ownCloud","level":3,"time":1363252606}
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
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Its not compatible with ownCloud 5, please contact the maintainer of the 
app.

My personal opinion on this is:
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I wouldnt add a virus scanner on top of owncloud. Virusscanners slow 
down your server and are generally snake oil security software. A 
virusscanner can never detect all viruses (there are billions of them 
and they often change their signature) and people rely on it and open 
every file without thinking twice. It may also be an additional attack 
vector, since the parser engine is complex.

If you care about security, give your people a secure operating system 
like any Linux distribution and disable their root/sudo rights. I know 
this might not be feasible in every environment but maybe its possible ;)