Yikes... he beat me to the answer! :^)
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Civileme translated thoughts to electrons:
> YES Linux needs virus scanners. To protect other systems it firewalls for on
> LANs, for example. Essentially the linux implementation is "virus-proof".
> Theoretically, a virus could enter and wait in memory for a "make" to be issued
> and perhaps get some source compiled into one of your programs, but that would be
> a virus worthy of genius-level effort. Worms and trojans are unlikely to do more
> than harm your own user space, leaving the system and its protected files quite
> intact, and since they are generally written to be as destructive as possible,
> they exit with error after the first attempt to do something unpermitted.
>
> What we pay for this protection is learning to live with privileged and
> unprivileged user spaces, file permissions, and the like. I think the price is
> cheap, having once lost six years worth of writing to a delayed MAC virus (yes,
> it was all over the backup tapes as well).
>
> Civileme
>
> Paul Benjamin wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >ICQ: 26147713
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >-----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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