RE: virus detection

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>]

On 05-Feb-2001 Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I posted a question earlier about a kernel panic.
> I don't know exactly where to report this, but I apparently got infected by
> a virus:
> /etc, /sbin, /bin and so on are owned by gandalf,
> 'find' has disappeared.
> /var has disappeared.
> 

there are no known virus for UNIX.  sorry.  You may have been bitten by
hardware failure, software bugs, your own accidental rm -rf, but a bug is not
your problem.

If this machine is on the net directly, perhaps you were attacked?