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but how do you explain this:" AVG File Server Edition 7.5 for Linux/FreeBSD"

why is it that http://www.grisoft.com has a version for linux?

so linux can be virusinfected after all?

cheers!

digi



2007/1/4, Adriaan Leijnse <lordmyth at gmail.com>:
>
> But how big is the chance that happens? That's close to nil...
> A virus like that will probably not even spread, and could be called a
> rootkit because of that.
> Viruses that use kernel exploits etc. are virtually non-existant.
> I mean, ask any linux user if they ever got a virus, good luck finding one
> :)
> I'm just going off on this because people never believe that you don't
> ever get viruses in linux, and I think part of the problem is this
> 'politically correct' marketing.
>
> 2007/1/4, Jan Claeys <ubuntu at janc.be>:
> > Op woensdag 03-01-2007 om 23:15 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Adriaan
> > Leijnse:
> > > maybe just say that there aren't any viruses for linux?
> > > (there are like 4 of them, and none of them are in the wild or work on
> > > distro's newer than say 2005)
> >
> > Eh?
> >
> > Gigabyte[1] (Belgium's most famous virus writer) wrote a virus in TCL
> > some years ago[2], and I see no reason why it wouldn't work anymore
> > today.
> >
> > Or I could write a working virus myself, if you prefer, in python or
> > bash or whatever...  ;-)
> >
> > Seriously, it's quite easy to write a virus, it's a bit more difficult
> > to get a user to run it, and it's even more difficult to get it run with
> > root privileges (although that might not be required for a virus to be
> > successful).  But it's *really* possible to do so.
> >
> >
> > [1] <http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=3&subid=85&art_id=153887
> >[3]
> > [2] <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10907>
> > [3] It took the FCCU 6 months to find her real identity.  It took me 2
> >     minutes...   ;-)
> >
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