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[Mehercle]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:51, rene vdb wrote:
> 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
Two reasons: You can find Windows viruses on your file server, and grisoft 
wants to earn money :)

Pieter
>
> 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...   ;-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jan Claeys
> > >
> > >
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