> -----Original Message----- > From: David Gethings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Virus protection for Evolution users > > > On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:32, Mike Williams wrote: > > Why would you forward the virus onto anyone, when you are immune? > I think he meant that if he got an email with the virus and then > forwarded that email - and its attachment - onto a Windows user. Rather > than have the worm spread by itself. > > Now why you would *ever* do this is beyond me. > > To answers the posters original question: I am personally not aware of > any AV software for Linux. I would presume there are none for the above > reasons. >
Hi, This was exactly the scenario. This new worm can be embedded in a zip file. Simple Postfix attachment filters don't reject it. I'm typing this on a Windows/Outlook machine with Norton Antivirus that has received something like 15 of these attachments just this morning. Norton catches them so no big deal. However, on my Linux box maybe I don't open the zip file, but for one reason or another, today or some day in the future, I forward the email to someone else. They get infected since they run Windows. Granted, it's their fault they got infected at all, but I can do the world a little favor by not forwarding this things, right? I see another email just arrived saying clamav. Thanks to Peter for that. There's also one called Kaminski or something like that for Linux, but that's for money. Anyway, thanks for the ideas. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
