On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:41 +0000, Gary wrote:
> Anti-virus for Linux is not something that should be overlooked or
> sneered at. Bot-herders prize the Linux systems they manage to
> infect, because of both their rarity and stability.
>
> Some distros offer KlamAV (with a K) as a KDE frontend for personal PC
> use, but I've yet to get it to work on my PC's. A failed KlamAV
> install (download difficulties, couldn't get all the parts from the
> repository) wrecked Firefox so badly -- ALL extensions and themes
> nuked, and xpi reinstall rendered impossible -- I had to reinstall.
> And I mean I had to wipe my separate /home partition also, because
> /home/.* application data was so FUBAR'ed, it propagated into OS-only
> reinstall when I preserved old /home!!!
>
> Grisoft also offers their AVG Free antivirus for Linux.
> http://free.grisoft.com I really really liked AVG as a Windows user,
> but installing it under Linux looks to be a hideously technical
> process that I find a little too daunting just yet.
>
> It involves getting and installing a kernel module called "dazuko"
> from dazuko.org, then istalling AVG itself from tarball. Yikes!
I got a Linux virus once. It came through an email. The body of the
message looked like this:
You have received the Linux virus.
Please delete some files at random, and pass this message on.
End message.
Danged if I know. I wasn't logged in as root either, but the cursed
thing worked.
Clay.
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