virus 1
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Fri Nov 16 14:48:31 CST 2001
The reason you don't see viruses for Linux is it's not worth writing
them. In order for a Linux virus to do any serious damage, it needs to
be run by the root account. Otherwise you only infect one users
directory, where's the pay-off in that? No it is far better to write
exploits that cause buffer overflows, exposing the system to widespread
attack and opening up the ports on Linux machines. I have seen a noticed
increase in that area over the last month or so. So don't feel ignored,
those wonderful dark underlings will get around to you sooner or later.
;)>
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dlegion [mailto:dlegion at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:16 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: virus ?
>
>
> Is there a linux antivirus program outthere, does linux need
> somthing like
> that. I'v been downloading and viewing all sorts of things
> but have not ran
> into a virus one! I know that if I downloaded like this in
> windows I would
> have contracted a virus if I did not have some sort of protection.
> If linux does not need such a thing , Why?
>
> Thank You.
> Aldis A Tuck
>
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