On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:46:06PM +0530, H.S.Rai wrote: > 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]. >
Fair enough ... See comments below. > > 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 harm- > ing me ), but harming other window users on transferring > files? > There is no rationale behind this. Antiviruses in Linux are mainly for mail from M$ clients. McAfee for Linux is avilable at a price, and F-Prot (?freeware, as Suresh stated) is also there .. the only risk is sending mails with dangerous pay- loads as atts. These check for M$ viruses/ worms/ trojans, which your friend anyway is doing from the M$ box ... > > 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. > These files may have existed in the directory before you put your files there.The .eml extension is from OE or some other M$ mailer, which could not come out of a Linux box .. > > I would like to know reason for this. Is there virus on my > PC or antivirus is reporting incorrectly? > These files by all probailities pre-existed, and no comments can be made on any file in a directory which has not been placed by you ... Just for a re-assurance. Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Password protection in vim LOST #170 Afraid that root is snooping into your personal files ? Before quitting in vim (viz :wq), use ':X' to encrypt your file (vim will prompt for a password). Next edit needs password negotia- tion. [For further details ':help :X' in vim command mode]. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>######################################## : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
