-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 January 2003 01:29 pm, you wrote: > > > > 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. > > I suspect that this claim is based on a terminological > misunderstanding, as would be indicated by you further > comments below? At any rate, regardless of whether you > are talking about virii, trojan horses, or other > vulnerablities, the numbers above are bogus, probably > based on some poorly researched press reports several > months ago. LWN.net published some followup reports > that gave a much truer picture, actually producing far > higher numbers, but showing why the numbers are > misleading in any event. But a discussion of the > details are off topic: please take any discussion of > this nature to a more appropriate forum, as I suggested > before -- I'm not interested in a debate. Nor am I. However, I base all my information on the CERT databases. anything else is just FUD from a microsoft shill (see zdnet, et al). I stand by the numers I quoted simply because they happen to be the most correct information I have gained to date. Thank you for your time. 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+Nb69n/usgigAaLcRAiYAAJ9v3Yd14Ja3hxN6vibShluFBlyo1ACbBT+n nVZbLejAB617xjmOPaHxHcE= =eCYi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----