Well, there's always the risk of viruses being *on* the server, in the form of normal PC or MAC viruses in files accessed via netatalk or samba. I don't think there's any such thing as a UNIX virus, is there? Although, a colleague and I once discussed, over the period of a year, how we could write a virus for VMS that would do all kinds of things to the system, and hide itself, or even automatically kill any admin user when they logged on, effectively forcing the system to be reinstalled. It was just a mental exercise, though, we never actually wrote it, of course. I suppose in theory someone could write one though. Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 6 March 2000 09:46 > To: Andrew Langton > Cc: 'Kevin Waterson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SLUG] [OT} Data backup horror stories -was > stolen compter > ar ticle > > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Andrew Langton wrote: > > > This guy was running MAcafee, and had been for some time. > He just wasn't > > updating the defs like I told him to. He had a net > connection from his > > notebook that he logged onto in the morning, then stayed on > all day for his > > e-mail, so he could easily have done it, he just never did. > I think he > > learned his lesson :) > > > > > Which raises the obvious question: is there any significant > linux virus risk at the moment? > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe in the text > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
