<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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: <blockquote cite="mid35def3680701040151n16566411ma8c38623a893f50c@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">but how do you explain this:" AVG File Server Edition 7.5 for Linux/FreeBSD" why is it that <a href="http://www.grisoft.com">http://www.grisoft.com</a> has a version for linux? so linux can be virusinfected after all? cheers! digi <div>2007/1/4, Adriaan Leijnse <<a href="mailto:lordmyth@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lordmyth@gmail.com </a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@janc.be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu@janc.be</a>>: > 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] <<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] > [2] <<a href="http://wiki.tcl.tk/10907" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://wiki.tcl.tk/10907</a>> > [3] It took the FCCU 6 months to find her real identity.  It took me 2 >     minutes...   ;-) > > -- > Jan Claeys > > > -- > ubuntu-be mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com </a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be</a> > -- ubuntu-be mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be</a> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>