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Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> Will Kemp wrote:

>>> Therefore anti-virus software is not need either [1].
>> I don't think anything that could really be called "anti-virus software"
>> actually exists for Linux.
>>
> The only virus issues I have heard of have been worms on servers, apart from
> one recent virus reported somewhere like Slashdot, and there was no panic
> about it.

I was (un)lucky enough to be admining a server (at 4zzz in Brisbane) 
many years ago now (2001 maybe) and it had a virus. It was ugly! But 
that got in from a person installing it from a rootkit, via a 
vulnerability in an old version of sshd. This was before automatic 
updates and there were 3 of us co-sysadmining the servers and LTSP X 
terminals - and nobody had specific responsibility for keeping stuff 
like that up to date, so it got overlooked.

Anyway, it was a nightmare trying to get rid of it. I tried for a couple 
of days and then another mug took over - and had to reinstall the system 
several times, i believe!

> If you are able to access a Windows partition, it has been suggested that
> you install Windows antivirus as a precaution.  I am not sure what the risk
> is, even then.  Possibly an email virus could be propagated.  I was told
> not to bother.  Check your listing under Synaptic.

I can't see any point at all in that. Apart from anything else, windows 
virus checkers only catch about 40% of viruses, anyway. And can they 
find viruses in ELF binaries???


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