I have a copy of OSF.8759 somewhere. I was infected a long time ago
courtesy of an infected database server from a commercial library
information system that my work had just purchased.
That thing was as infectious as it gets. If you cleaned up your system
and missed even a single binary, it would reinfect all the other
binaries almost immediately. The only reason I even noticed that I had
it was that certain binaries (ls) started crashing under certain
circumstances. No slow downs or anything else like that.
That was the one and only virus that I have ever gotten on Linux and
it's been over 10 years since that wonderful experience.
Brian Cluff
On 02/10/2014 07:41 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
Linux viruses known to be out there already.
http://www.unixmen.com/meet-linux-viruses/
Why linux will never suffer from viruses to the extent windows does.
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Why-Linux-Will-Never-Suffer-From-Viruses-Like-Windows/
Also it's good for a linux machine to have antivirus software installed
on it if it interacts with windows machines. For example; if it's a
samba server or some other server windows boxes connect to. If you have
antivirus software on your linux box, you can check emails and
attachments for viruses so you don't pass them on to windows users.
On 02/10/2014 07:13 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
you know, my attitude has been,'Virus? What's a virus?' since moving
to linux. There is only ONE virus for linux that I can think of.......
never mind. I can't think of any. Is that the way it still is?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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