Removing virus

[jdow]

Thou shouldest know by now, grasshopper, that for Windows viruses you
visit sites like Computer Associates MacAfee or Symmantec's Norton Anti-
Virus pages and look them up. Don't ask a collection of Red Hatters
about things that can't touch their machines.

{^_-}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J.L. Coenders" <fedora at universalgrid.nl>


> 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.