LInux viruses

[sizo nsibande]

That is a good point on the quote, it is a reall eye opener for me!

On 24/05/07, Les <hlhowell at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>  On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 10:04 +0200, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
>  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.
>
> --
> Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.
>
>  Hi, Manuel,
>      Who is "we" in your email?
>
>  Regards,
>  Les H
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