Re: viruses

[Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>]

On Saturday 23 April 2005 05:15, DR GAVIN SEDDON wrote:
> Hi,
> As I understand there are no viruses for Linux.  Can 'we' be carriers,
> why not, and is it worth buying software to detect and clean the hdd?  I
> am asking this because I have just opened a suspect email and I don't
> want to pass anything on to a pc user.
> Cheers.

You can pass a virus on if you forward it to a windows user...  As to buying
a virus checker, I would say no.  The are several free ones for linux.  I think
clamav for debian is available.

Ed Tomlinson