Hmm..
Not exactly viruses But .. trojans ... setuid proggies ,
Security holes exploiting proggies ... yep
Could be written like a virus to attack your system
But not in the traditional sense of viruses in MS Win
-----Original Message-----
From: Nagarjuna G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Is their any anti-virus software which can run on linux -
>On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, satya wrote:
>
>> the email posted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] contained a file happy99.exe
>> which could be a virus.
>>
>> btw, are there any linux viruses?
>
>
>There are no viruses in any Unix/Linux OSs. It is because a virus
>program needs to be logged in as an user. All processes are run by some
>user name.
>
>Nagarjuna
>
>
>
