Speaking of viruses
Mike Causer
mikec at mikecauser.org
Mon Dec 29 14:35:26 UTC 2003
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:10:02 -0500 WA9ALS - John wrote:
> My understanding is that these programs detect WINDOWS viruses as received
> on a linux box. If you don't have Windows, "What, Me Worry?"
[mikec at lugh f-prot]$ sudo f-prot -virno
Password:
SIGN.DEF created 29 December 2003
SIGN2.DEF created 29 December 2003
MACRO.DEF created 22 December 2003
DOS/Windows: 25989 viruses and 43528 Trojans
Word/Excel: 7997 viruses and Trojans
Java: 2 viruses and 126 Trojans
BAT: 2537 viruses and Trojans
IRC INI: 1349 viruses and Trojans
Script: 3791 viruses and Trojans
INF: 5 viruses and Trojans
Unix shell: 253 viruses and Trojans
Ami: 2 viruses and Trojans
WinBat: 4 viruses and Trojans
PIF: 19 viruses and Trojans
PalmOS: 4 viruses and Trojans
PHP: 11 viruses and Trojans
Unix: 312 viruses and Trojans
In addition, over 15750 viruses are identified using
generic identification, so the total number of viruses
and Trojans known to F-PROT is somewhere over 101600.
[mikec at lugh f-prot]$
So, *nix problems are not great, but they do exist. However I haven't
seen one in the wild since the Morris worm.
Mike
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