Trever, You should know better. Viruses, like their biological counterparts are pieces of code that cause random damage...Worms, on the other hand are more sophisticated entities, whose main goal may or may not be to cause damage, but rather gain access to a system...
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 > > 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. > > -- > Trever Miller > Cyberdex Systems Consulting Corp. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= --oo0oo-- Juan Alberto Cirez - Software Developer --oo0oo-- =========== [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= C, C++, Java, Perl & .NET Enterprise Solutions Supporting Windows & Linux Environments =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Sunny and Beautiful Vancouver, Canada. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= _______________________________________________ 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
