Hi, On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:54 AM, navneet sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > *A Word on Computer Viruses > *Viruses are, by definition, malicious pieces of code that replicate > themselves. They can do this through a variety of methods, including > infecting other executable files or disseminating macros and other forms of > executable content.Viruses are most commonly spread by users sharing files, > particularly through email, and also other means. Viruses are well known to > have been causing problems to the Windows users. > But the question remains, Are there any Linux virus? And if yes, should I > worry??? The answer is yes to the first question and no to the second one. > Let me tell you my experience. On my dual boot home PC I primarily work on > Linux partition but ocassionally have to boot into the Windowspartition > (usually to do such works like checking a MS Word document's formatting, a > document that was originally made using Linux/OpenOffice.org Writer and > saved as a MS Wordfile; this is another issue where a user is forced to use > such proprietary software, because a particular agency needs a document in a > proprietary format however). >
[snip] All this information is really nice. Just adding one small piece of information : The latest updates on these virus information are from 2002 (as per www.viruslist.com). I believe that there are hardly any viruses currently functional on linux systems. Please correct me if I am wrong. Regards, -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! Have you tried the new "FREE" Devanagari (Marathi) font family "Aksharyogini" we have released? Please get it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.sudhanwa.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
