Avast antivirus for linux

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Wed Apr 23 04:43:00 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:30 -0700, David Vincent wrote:
> BZZZT!  WRONG!
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses
> 
> Honestly...

Honestly, this link comes up every time, and it is ridiculous to compare
these in any way to Windows. I won't repeat what I wrote several times
before when this topic erupted, but I challenge you to not blindly post
a link, but to actually research the malware in this list: search for
them in the malware databases of Symantec, etc.

You will find "proof of concept", "never seen in the wild", and so on in
nearly every case, except maybe for some server worms whose exploits
have been fixed long ago, too.





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