If you have Mandrake 6.0 PowerPack edition you can look on the
Applications CD (demo & commercial) you will find AVP. It is a
Russian anti-virus scanner. My understanding it is mostly used to
scan email for windows users attached via Samba. If you don't have
the Power Pack you can get it at www.avp.ch
There is a virus (or trojan horse) called Bliss that will attack
Linux. I don't know anything more about it. I found a link about it
at: http://LinuxStart.Com/ but I didn't follow it.
If you don't spend much time as root or equivalent and keep your file
permissions locked down it would be hard for a virus to spread. The
thing to look out for is a trojan horse or worm. If you keep up with
one or two of the Linux news sites you should be ok. Just follow up
on the security alerts to see if they affect what you are doing.
PBen
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:40:39 -0600, "Ty C. Mixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On the same note - what about virus checking programs? I haven't noticed
>any, and I'm currently reading thru the RHPowerPack 6.0 list.
>
>Ty C. Mixon
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don Whitman
>Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 8:41 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] virus?
>
>Does linux have any viruses to worry about? What about the future. There are
>some really wack people out there!!!
>
>Don
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