[luau] Virus Scan/Checker

[Wayne Bow]

Aloha,

We use F-prot antivirus and it claims to check for 98 Unix/Linux 
virii/trojans.  

www.frisk.is

On 17 Aug 2002 at 16:13, MonMotha wrote:

> Dan George wrote:
> > I need a good virus scanner like Innoculate for Linux.  Any suggestions. 
> > I just got hammered with a virus and had to wipe out all my data on my 
> > laptop
> > before I tried to send any emails to anyone.  I noticed this when I was 
> > unable to send emails to my intented clients and instead they were going 
> > to a folder which I guess someone created a user account on disguised as 
> > a MPLUG member.  I didnt check everyone on the list, which was my 
> > mistake, and
> > assumed it could have been someone on the list I didnt know.  The email 
> > was disquised as a newbie needing hardware compliant PDA for 7.3.
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> 
> I have yet to see a virus scanner for Linux that checks for Linux 
> viruses.  Most of the scanners are for mail gateways an proxies to check 
> inbound things for Windows (and sometimes Mac) viruses.  However, I 
> think Norton may make one (I think it's able to detect a whole two viruses).
> 
> The reason?  Linux basically has no viruses.  There have been a couple 
> "proof of concept" things, but they're usually never seen in the wild, 
> outside of Norton or whoever (insert conspiracy theory here).
> 
> The reason for this is that, unless you're being an idiot (or you're 
> running Lindows, don't get me started), you don't go cruising around as 
> root all the time.  Under Win9x and NT, people normally go cruising 
> around with sufficient privilages to infect system binaries and cause 
> major damage.  Under Linux, only root (and often the user bin, which 
> isn't able to log in) has the privilages needed to accomplish that.  So, 
> should a user run an infected executable under Linux, it can only infect 
> the binaries that are owned by the user.  These are few and far between.
> 
> --MonMotha
> 
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Wayne Bow
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