ubuntu littered with malicious viruses, some oriented toward Linux

[Myles Green]

On Mon, 2004-13-12 at 08:24 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Myles Green wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:55 +0000, Frank Merenda wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2004-11-12 at 21:33 -0800, Michael Dean wrote:
> > > > > This mailing list is riddled with both Win and Linux viruses and trojan 
> > > > > payloads
> 
> I can't see any hitting the lists;  although there as been some weird stuff
> in my main mailbox from the gs1.ubuntuforums.org stuff.
> 
> Luckily, even if they were viruses, they wouldn't affect your Ubuntu
> machine!  :-)
> 
> > GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) for Linux is what PGP (Pretty Good Protection)
> > is for windows...
> 
> OpenPGP is a standard, "like HTML".
> 
> PGP is one (proprietary) program that talks this standard, "like IE".
> 
> GnuPG is one (GPL) program that talks this standard, "like Firefox".

OK... I was trying to explain that there hasn't been any viri or trojans
that I've seen, just GnuPG sigs, all without splitting hairs too finely.
But thanks for clarifying things.


-- 
Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net>
Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux - Try it, you'll like it.
My GPG public key is available here: http://keyserver-beta.pgp.com/
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