Hi all,
I've been looking around for any information on virus scanners for
Linux. Apart from McAfee, I couldn't see much.
While I was doing this it occurred to me that it might be possible to
scan for viruses by doing the following:
a) Periodically, examine all running tasks.
b) For each task, do an 'rpm --verify' for the package that this
process belongs to.
Assuming that it is not possible to create a task in Linux without
creating a process ID entry (and therefore visible in the /proc directory.).
Am I being to simplistic here?
I'm not a virus aware person, so I don't spend a lot of time trying to
work out the various ways of screwing up a linux box.
Regards,
Andrew Eager.
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