Is there virus removal software for Jaunty KDE

Martin Laberge mlsoftlaberge at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 02:05:03 UTC 2009


On Saturday 13 June 2009 21:35:58 Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Martin Laberge<mlsoftlaberge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just do not think anymore about virus.
> >
> > You are using linux, and do not need to do it.
> 
> Not *precisely* true. There are rootkits and trojans that can affect
> Linux, but they're rare and hardly ever found in the wild. If you're
> using your Linux computer as a mail server, then you definitely need a
> virus detector like ClamAV to detect and eliminate viruses before they
> make their way to the mailbox of someone using Windows.
> 
> Viruses, trojans, and rootkits are very, very rare for Linux, though.
> In general, if your computer is acting like it has a virus, then the
> first place to look is your system logs. It's far more likely that
> there's a misconfiguration somewhere
> 
> -- 
> Richard S. Crawford (rscrawford at mossroot.com)
> http://www.mossroot.com
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> 

In the case of trojans or rootkits, you then need to use
a rootkit eliminator, (something like chkrootkit)

In the case of a mail server to windows machines,
just let the windows clients suffer for their sins
if THEY did'nt installed something to take care
of THEIR problem.



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