[luau] Anti Virus

[Eric Hattemer]

well, a product from a company called sophos
http://www.sophos.com/products/software/antivirus/savunix.html is able to
find viruses and worms in linux.  (I'm pretty sure it finds worms, its been
a long time since I used it).  When the Ramen Worm was a big deal, Sophos
antivirus was supposed to be able to find it, if I recall.  It does cost
money, but there's also a trial version.  Try it out and see if you like it.

-Eric Hattemer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimen Ching" <jching at flex.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Anti Virus


> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, MonMotha wrote:
> >I have yet to see a linux virus in the wild.  Heck I haven't even seen
> >any proof of concept viruses (worms though).
>
> It is probably due to the open source/free software environment.  In the
> old days, the late 80's ;-), viruses are spread via shareware.  These are
> binary distributions you download from one BBS or another.  Who knows who
> uploaded those things.  But most people download binary packages from the
> distributors now.  So there is no way for people to insert viruses or
> worms or trojan horses.
>
> The biggest problem facing the open source/free software world is not
> viruses, but security bugs.  Too bad there is no software to detect these.
> I mean detect them in a generic piece of software, not on a system
> configuration.
>
> --jc
> --
> Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching at flex.com     wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org
>
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