On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Is it common for linux user to use some antivirus program
> You don't need antivirus programs on linux machine to > keep it safe. When anti- virus and linux are in same Thanks for your advise. I am using linux for the last 1.5 year. I need to ask this when I faced a problem, which I posted earlier with subject "Virus threat?" [copy appended]. That problem resulted in black listing myself by owner of window PC, who permitted me to use his hard disk. Is it possible that my computer is infected with virus ( not harming me ), but harming other window users on transferring files? H.S.Rai ---------------------------------- copy of mail ----------------------------------- As root, I copied a few files from my linux machine to window shared directory ( on other PC on lan ). Nortan Anti Virus showed virus in the files in the directory, ONLY, where I copied. The infected files reported ( like search.eml, red.eml, desktop.eml, unknown0240.data and so on ) are not mine and are not on my PC. Antivirus reports virus like W32Nimda.enc, W32Nimda@mm[dr], W32FunLove.4099. I would like to know reason for this. Is there virus on my PC or antivirus is reporting incorrectly? _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
