Removing virus

J.L. Coenders fedora at universalgrid.nl
Thu Jan 29 19:50:38 UTC 2004


I wasn't very concerned about these viri, but I would like to remove them, 
because I do not want to be a collector of viri. I was just wondering if 
anyone knew the file mentoined, because it is outline my Mail directory.
The newsflash is funny though...
- Jeroen

On Thursday 29 January 2004 19:42, Steve Bergman wrote:
> As more new users move from Windows to Linux, I think I see an
> unexpected PR problem developing.
>
> I can just see the CNN story now:
>
> Users Find Linux Just As Prone To Computer Viruses as Windows
>
> There has been a flurry of concern among users of the Linux Operation
> System regarding computer viruses.  (Operation systems are the programs
> that make computers 'work'.) Some posters to the Fedora-Core internet
> mailing list, frequented by users of the freeware computer program,
> have found viruses on their Linux computers, previously thought to be
> immune from virus attacks.  Concern has arisen as to how to detect and
> remove the malicious 'worms' since antivirus programs, like Norton
> Antivirus for Windows do not run on the Linux system.  Many users have
> never scanned their machines, believing them to be virus proof.  As an
> interim solution, it has been suggested that the users empty their trash
> folders and delete infected programs on their machines.





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