Mabuhay,
OK. There are viruses for all OSes, but for Linux/Unix systems, these are extremely
rare in the
wild and is a non-issue. And about Winux (IMHO) is just a proof of concept
implementation that
became a news item. It never went pass that. The concept is good though.
I suggest you spend your precious time and money dealing with more pressing concerns
like worms and
bored teen age kids with a computer. Viruses should still be a concern but I would put
it low on my
list of priorities.
Apparently, there is an anti-virus software that runs on Linux:
Trend Micro's InterScan
http://www.trendmicro.com
I believe a good reason for you to use this if you have a heterogeneous network and
you need to
protect your Windows clients by detetecting viruses in your Linux servers before they
get to the
Windows clients. Neat set-up!
ltiu
Paolo wrote:
>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 14:03:32 +0800
From: Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Infoweb Telecom (International) Limited
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [plug] Re: Anti-virus for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ltiu wrote:
>
> There are no viruses for Linux. At least not yet so you won't need an anti-virus
software for Linux.
>
That's the same thing people said about macros in 1995.
So, before you get surprised by an infection, be aware that there exists
several viruses for linux, the earliest coded around 1996. There a zip
munching virus and and at least one that is dual os. The dual os one is
called winux and though it needs winblows for it's primary host, it can
infect any ELF file in the windows filesystem. That ELF file can then
run under Linux and proceed to do it's thing.
You might say that you'll be protected by the permissions under linux.
But since most people who dual boot linux, (and some who don't), at home
are not so mindful of security, preferring to login as root, well...you
can imagine what an all powerful virus can do then.
> There are worms though. The only way to protect yourself agains these is to keep your
networking
> sofware packages up to date with the latest patches or versions and minimize your
system( shut down
> unecessary networking services like for example telnet, Bind dns, dhcp, nfs,
Sendmail............ ).
>
Yeah, it's been more than a decade since the Morris worm and nothing's
changed.
> For intrusion detection. You can use Snort, Portsentry and Tripwire.
>
> The best way to protect yourself is to make good use of the tools already available
>on a
Linux
> system. Syslog, Tcpwrappers - inetd/xinetd, Secure Shell(ssh).
>
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, log in as a user.
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