Antivirus program for ubuntu feisty amd64

Mike McMullin mwmcmlln at mnsi.net
Thu May 10 13:13:40 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:46 +0200, Davide Corio wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 10/05/2007 alle 05.35 -0700, cj ha scritto:
> > i know that linux doesnt need antivirus because it cant run windows 
> > programs, 
> 
> Linux "can" run windows program (see wine or mono applications)
> but windows virus "cannot" infect them.
> 
> 
> > but there are linux viruses out there. here are a few of them:
> > 
> > antivirus.about.com/od/*linux*unix*viruses*/*Linux*_Unix_*Viruses*.htm
> 
> Did you ever seen a virus for linux? :)
> I saw an Apache whorm some years ago, but nothing really dangerous.

  Linux Virii do exist on concept form, it's a question of their being
out in the wild.





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