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Re: viruses



On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 08:26 -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> 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

Well, I didn't know that.  Doesn't "forwarding" not send attachments?

> a virus checker, I would say no.  The are several free ones for linux.  I think
> clamav for debian is available.

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