Re: Virusscan

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>]

su, 12-01-2003 kello 21:26, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
kirjoitti:
> On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:51, Tomasz Cichecki wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Jord Swart wrote:
> > 
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > I know the the amount of virusses on Linux is close to zero, nevertheless I 
> > > was wondering if you guys know of a GPL-ed virusscan for Linux? I know McAfee 
> > > has one for Unices available, but I would rather not use it.
> > > 
> > > Second question to it: do you actually use one?
> > > 
> > 
> > Linux is meant to be attack-proof, 
> 
> Hmm. While I agree with you, that separating user accounts and
> administration accounts saves the *system*, I don't think that Linux is
> any more attack-proof than any windows system as far as a users data is
> concerned (and, after all, this is what the user cares about).

Actually, it is, since there are fewer
I don't know of any current ones.

> 
> At the moment, the main difference is that windows is far more
> widespread, and the average Linux/Unix user probably knows more about
> his system than the average Windows user. So, as a virus author, I would
> chose the system where I can gain the most publicity...
> 
> So, if Linux ever spreads really far, I guess Linux viruses will also
> appear.
> 
> (NOTE: I speak of 'virus' here in the modern call-all-malware-a-virus
> fasion. I doubt viruses in the classical sense will ever again be
> important - it's all about trojans and worms now).
> 
> cheers
> -- vbi
> 
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