[luau] Anti Virus

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Wed Mar 27 14:14:02 PST 2002


I have yet to see a linux virus in the wild.  Heck I haven't even seen 
any proof of concept viruses (worms though).  Due to the permissions 
system linux uses, damage can be minimized to only the user who runs the 
virus.  Unfortunately on a single-user system this user will own all the 
data that would be crucial anyway.

I'm not aware of any virus scanners for linux (other than email filters 
to catch windows ones) due to the lack of virii.

--MonMotha

Ralph Miranda wrote:
> 
> On my windows I'm using Norton Antivirus Corporate edition... any 
> suggestions for Linux?  I'm using Mandrake 8.1    soon I'll use 8.2
> 
> Thank you,
> Ralph
> 
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