but how do you explain this:" AVG File Server Edition 7.5 for Linux/FreeBSD"<br><br>why is it that <a href="http://www.grisoft.com">http://www.grisoft.com</a> has a version for linux?<br><br>so linux can be virusinfected after all?
<br><br>cheers!<br><br>digi<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/1/4, Adriaan Leijnse <<a href="mailto:lordmyth@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lordmyth@gmail.com
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But how big is the chance that happens? That's close to nil...<br>A virus like that will probably not even spread, and could be called a<br>rootkit because of that.<br>Viruses that use kernel exploits etc. are virtually non-existant.
<br>I mean, ask any linux user if they ever got a virus, good luck finding one :)<br>I'm just going off on this because people never believe that you don't<br>ever get viruses in linux, and I think part of the problem is this
<br>'politically correct' marketing.<br><br>2007/1/4, Jan Claeys <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@janc.be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu@janc.be</a>>:<br>> Op woensdag 03-01-2007 om 23:15 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Adriaan
<br>> Leijnse:
<br>> > maybe just say that there aren't any viruses for linux?<br>> > (there are like 4 of them, and none of them are in the wild or work on<br>> > distro's newer than say 2005)<br>><br>> Eh?
<br>><br>> Gigabyte[1] (Belgium's most famous virus writer) wrote a virus in TCL<br>> some years ago[2], and I see no reason why it wouldn't work anymore<br>> today.<br>><br>> Or I could write a working virus myself, if you prefer, in python or
<br>> bash or whatever... ;-)<br>><br>> Seriously, it's quite easy to write a virus, it's a bit more difficult<br>> to get a user to run it, and it's even more difficult to get it run with<br>> root privileges (although that might not be required for a virus to be
<br>> successful). But it's *really* possible to do so.<br>><br>><br>> [1] <<a href="http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=3&subid=85&art_id=153887" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=3&subid=85&art_id=153887
</a>>[3]<br>> [2] <<a href="http://wiki.tcl.tk/10907" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://wiki.tcl.tk/10907</a>><br>> [3] It took the FCCU 6 months to find her real identity. It took me 2
<br>> minutes... ;-)<br>><br>> --
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