On April 22, 2005 10:54 am, Trever Miller wrote: > Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > > Bite your tongue!!! There are no viruses in Linux.... > > Are you sure? > > http://www.viruslibrary.com/virusinfo/Linux.htm
7...lol... notice the main page didn't even have a category for Windows viruses? It's because its implied in the other categories. There's more categories of Windows viruses than there are actual viruses for Linux [well, according to this source...] > > OK, so this list is small and mostly worms which aren't strictly virii, > but still... they do exist. Most people tend to lump worms in with > virii, and there's been a number of remote exploits of various things > that happen to run on Linux. Just check the RISKS list every week. > > Still, in general the risk is very slight due to modern distros being > locked down out of the box, (no unecessary services running, a firewall > config in place etc). > > Not like the 15-30 min on average it takes an unpatched and unfirewalled > windows machine to become compromised. At least XP SP2 is better in this > regard than previous offerings. > > But I digress. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
