On Friday 27 February 2004 12:02 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > Actually, it is entirely possible for you to be infected > running Linux. The virii won't harm your machine much > itself, but the virii CAN send itself out when you send > email.
Which "viruses" are you referring to? If any of the recent Windows worms, then this statement is, in fact, incorrect. To my knowledge, a windows worm can not send itself out from a Linux machine. Even the MyDoom must execute on the target machine to begin to propagate out. If you are referring to the sparse numbers of Linux viruses, I don't know of any that are currently in the wild. > Only way to tell for sure is to send it to a Windows > machine and scan it. Remember, Linux may not have a problem > with virii as most can not run, but it has had a couple > worms. Actually, a much better way to detect a Linux virus would be to run a Linux anti-virus scanner. There are such applications, they may not get a lot of publicity since they aren't used much, but I currently run one on my system and there are more than a few available. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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