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[Geert Van Damme]

Not necessarily.
If I set up a linux mail server, it's obvious that I want some sort of 
virus scanning.
Not to protect the server itself, but the email users. And the viruses 
caught will be about 100% windows viruses.

Geert Van Damme

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
>
>
>
> 2007/1/4, Adriaan Leijnse <lordmyth at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <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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