LInux viruses
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
manuel at todo-linux.com
Fri May 18 08:04:04 UTC 2007
On Friday 18 May 2007 09:46:28 Renich Bon Ciric wrote:
> Is there any virus known to affect GNU & LInux systems; fedora in
> particular?
>
> I've read some article at wikipedia that says that there are a few...
> Any known cases yet?
>
>
> # Article
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses
quoting:
Currently there are under 100 native Linux viruses known but in many
organizations the fact that a Linux viruses exists is enough reason to
install and use Linux antivirus protection on Linux desktops and servers.
Additionaly users of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org have the ability to open
and view Microsoft Office documents that may contain viruses. These viruses
may not infect the Linux computer but the user can easily attach and send
these infected documents unknowingly to someone else and that is a serious
problem.
As system administrators move to Linux files servers they have a real problem
to deal with since the Linux file server can store Windows-based viruses.
Windows-based viruses can write to a Linux/Samba network share as easily as
they can on a Microsoft Windows based network. System administrators must
protect the Linux server from storing these viruses. The only way is through
active antivirus defense on the Linux server itself. Our Vexira Antivirus for
Linux, as an example, detects not only Linux-based viruses but also Windows
and DOS-based as well, I think the current number of malicious or potentially
malicious applications (viruses, trojans, worms, etc...) we detect is above
74,000 now.
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