On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, macky wrote:
> 
> > The virus has similarities to a virus bearing the Remote Shell Trojan (RST),
> > ...
> > Companies worried about the virus should update their anti-virus software.
> 
> Anti-virus software on Linux? Is there such an animal?
> Maybe disabling RPC services (including rsh) is enough to do the
> job?
> 
> PMana

meron naman. sophos and mcafee virusscan for linux.  although the
primary intention there is to do virus scanning of files 'destined for' or
'in behalf of' other/SMTP/POP/SMB client machines like windows.
so usually their virus database lists 99% windows-borne viruses.  only
1% are truly linux/unix viruses whose names escape me.  

pong

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