On April 13, 2003 04:17 pm, J Sloan wrote:hmm - now that's an interesting concept...
Ah, you want a windows virus protection
program that runs on linux then - sophos,
No. I want comments on LINUX antivirus applications.
I've never heard of any antivirus tools specifically for linux virii - they are all for microsoft windows virii, but come in versions which on linux since linux is often used as a mail gateway or a samba file server...
Linux virii seem mainly a laboratory curiosity so far - to infect a linux system you have to go on the honor system so to speak - log in as root, chmod+x the virus program and execute it - let's say it's a shell script containing the line:
rm -rf /
You'd have to be pretty lame to run it.
I guess it's like the question, "How can I defrag my hard drive in linux?" that coverts from the windows world ask early on...
Best Regards,
Joe
