Is there virus removal software for Jaunty KDE

[Jonas Norlander]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Lisi Reisz<lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven -
>
> I am forwarding this to the list because I feel that list discussions should
> stay on list; and also because some of the people on the list seem able to
> communicate with you better than I.  I am a litteralist when it comes to
> words; and it feels a bit to me as though I am conversing with Lewis Carol's
> Humpty Dumpty when I converse with you:  words mean what you want them to,
> not what everyone else thinks they mean.  E.g., when you said that you were
> connected to the web via a DSL modem, I accepted that at face value.  Some on
> the list knew better.  You are obviously, however distasteful it may be to
> you, connected via a modem-router of some kind.
>
> I gave you the name of a Live CD that can be used to scan for computer
> viruses.  I repeat, it is called F-Secure Rescue CD.  If you google for it,
> you will find it.  If you then burn the .iso to a CD, you will be able to run
> it on any computer you wish.  Just remember to plug said computer in to
> your "modem" with a Cat 5e (ethernet) cable before you start, so that the CD
> can update its virus data.
>
> You may well find some viruses in the middle of some of your downloaded stuff,
> but they will not be doing anything.  They will just be sitting there.  I
> once found 7 little virus .exe's sitting in my husband's /home/user directory
> looking forlorn and helpless.  I deleted them, but only for the sake of
> tidyness.
>
> The problems you describe show a network problem.
>
> A worm is malware, like viruses.  Like viruses they can't actually hurt a
> Linux computer.
>

In my opinion it's wrong to say that Worms can't hurt a Linux
computer. There has been some really big threat against Internet and
computers with worms spreading from infected Linux/Unix computers. I
thinking of vulnerability in DNS, Web/PHP, SSH and mailservers. The
risk is not as big as it used to be as distributions today is faster
to update bugs and are not running any services as default. So if you
not running any services, don't run programs as root and running daily
updates you should be safe.

/ Jonas