Re: recommended Virus Scanner?
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:48:12PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Not true. I have seen a Linux virus in the wild.
They don't live very long, or are they very numerous. I believe the
current number of viruses for Linux in the wild that haven't died out
is somewhere around zero right now.
> Further more just because one doesn't use Windows does not mean that
> they don't use other possible vectors. There's a very old addage
> for this, maybe you've heard of it? "Better safe than sorry".
I consider Windows viruses a blessing and a curse. I hope they ruin
that platform. On the other hand, users stupid enough to get infected
due to their choice of OS But that's just me. On the other hand,
users stupid enough to get infected with one of the viruses that sends
itself over the net deserve to have their ISP cut them off.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' :
`. `'` proud Debian admin and user
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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