[debian-user] Virus, Trojan, and Worm
Has antivirus software advanced to the point that the following excerpt
from Debian Administration (dated late 2004) is now invalid? I added
the square brackets and their content.
"Viruses are a fact of life nowadays, be they real viruses or worms
which require manual intervention on the [be]half of a user to [prevent]
propogate[propogation]. Unix systems tend to be immune from the viruses
themselves, but they still have mail queues full of viral messages."
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On Linux I never worried about such things but on Windows every day was
a problem, especially with worms. The antivirus software would identify
the worm and it's location and the antivirus developers said that worm
extraction was manual and not automated. I found this true until
recently when the newer versions on Windows now seem to automatically
extract the worm. So I was wondering (because of this article) if it is
now out dated and if the Linux antivirus packages now automatically deal
with the worms. I could never understand why removal of a worm was a
problem for an antivirus package. According to the developers all ll I
had to do was compress the worm infested file and then delete the file.
If I remember right I had my own approach which was to move the infested
file into a temp mail directory and then delete the directory .
Thanks, Ted
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