On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Wes Noonan wrote: > > Are you aware of any A/V desktop software for Linux? I'm not. So even > > if I wanted to run A/V on our desktops, I couldn't. > > Network Associates makes one. VirusScan for Unix. Been out for a while now, > at least a couple of years. There are others as well. Google "virus > protection software for linux". > > > A/V software will do exactly nothing to protect against worms that > > exploit buffer overflows in running services. > > This is not quite correct. Nachia and Blaster, as well as Code Red and its > variants are all detectable and preventable with virus protection. While > they may not stop the worm on the network, they can and do stop systems from > becoming infected and propagating the worm.
And there's a nice little perl action that Jay Dyson has coded up, called "code Green" for those running apache! Thanks, Ron DuFresne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html