<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Saturday 13 June 2009 09:35:58 pm Richard S. Crawford wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Martin Laberge<mlsoftlaberge@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@mossroot.com) > http://www.mossroot.com > Publisher and Editor in Chief, Daikaijuzine (http://www.daikaijuzine.com) I have never looked at my system logs. I wouldn't know what to look for. How do I do this? What do I look for? I am so very curious, because I explained just how I have been affected, and because of the progressive way my system has lost its abilities, to me it doesn't make sense that it could be anything else. What natural hard or software break cause my computer's name to be added to the sending address of another. When attempting to correct that problem, what natural event would then change the person you are sending's email address from '.' to '--dot--'. Next server replies that the sender's address needs to be corrected. Then the router fails. Then using an Internet email service starts acting strange by delayed mouse actions while other surfing remains pretty normal. Then direct connection fails to the DSL modem. Each is a communication problem relating to disrupting the sending of an email which progressively took place before the ability to send/receive an email stopped completely. I failed to mention, I formatted and reinstalled the OS and the problem remains, however, there may be a logical reason for that due to how I set up my mount points. / for boot /home/steven/svprivate for remainder of that same HDD. /home for first 100mb the second drive. /home/steven/backup for the second 99mb of the second HDD. Each have direct connection to the boot partition, because of their relationship to the /home directory, but none are affected by application or OS failures that result in re-installation. That is the reason I believe it is a virus, and why it is not removed by reinstalling the Boot Partition. Since this is the first time I have been taken serious with this problem, I have concluded that I need a virus application that can be downloaded to my laptop, copied to a thumb drive and/or CD, so that there is a means to get it into the offended computer. That means I will need help making that installation. I have only used a command line or package manager to install an application in Kubuntu, and there is no Internet connection to the affected computer. I would need help for that. Steven</body></html>