-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 January 2003 09:32 pm, you wrote: > This last post could easily be misinterpreted because > of some vague and ambiguous statements. The simple > truth is that unless you are a system administrator > running a linux based mail-server gateway to a network > of M$-Windoze machines, and know exactly why you are > running antivirus software on your linux mail-server, > you are wasting your time running anti-virus software, > period. is it? > > There are, for any practical purpose, no true viruses > for linux (the few that have been demonstrated are > mostly theoretical, because they can't reproduce well > enough to be a practical threat). I regret to inform you that this statement is false. there are, in fact 12 virii and 37 variants therein for various distributions of linux. I should know, I have had to trubleshoot a few linux boxes that did, in fact, have virus infections. > > Subscribe to your distribution's announce mailing list, > and keep up with the free security updates that they > post about, so that you will not have vulnerabilities > on your system to non-virus network attacks and > exploits (the type of bugs that show up on all > operating systems). But don't worry about self > replicating and propagating viruses, email or > otherwise. good advice. as it is, self-replicating virii are very rare for linux os bases anyway (I believe there is one). as for email scripts, etc, its never a bad idea to scan for them. in any case, never assume because an OS is open source, that it is safe from incursions (intended or otherwise). Technomage - -- I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own - No. 6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+Mi0Zn/usgigAaLcRAstJAJ4ySDAzAiyM7LAS7tbPe16gxprnxgCfTecm paNLs5wiRb0szSMN7Ri2blg= =NfYb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----