On Friday 27 February 2004 12:39 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> 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.
Well, I'm glad you weighed in Bryan. I reckon your one of the
network knowlegeable people here. I'm not.
www.mmgc (or whatever it was).... I checked Netcraft, an the
server was runnin 'advanced Apache on Mandrake Linux'. But hey,
Symantec crap is windoze AV crud, no?
So I reckon some windoze box connected (samba?) thru their
(mmgc) server had Symantec runnin on it, very badly engineered.
Anyhow, the problems seems gone. I'd appreciate your comments
tho.
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