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RE: virus detection



Don't mean to be rude but there ARE virusses for Unix. That's one of the BIG
myths out there. The nasa worm (also a 'virus') was NOT a virus ? Not in the
strict sense of the definition computer virus but tell that to Nasa.

Check out www.f-secure.com or any other AV company and you'll find some very
interesting feedback on Li/Uni/ux viral activities.

Greets,

Joris

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [mailto:shaleh@valinux.com]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:47 PM
To: Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: virus detection



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?


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