On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote:
> > Dear Sirs,
> > 
> > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV
> > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection
> > program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer viruses
> > in Germany could be counted on one hand, we deal with the subject virus
> > protection. In the last 11 years we won a lot of awards for our anti-virus
> > products in Germany. Our main market is currently Germany and the german
> > speaking market. Now we are going to expand our distribution area.
> <snip>
> 
> Since when did linux get virus's????   You'd only get them on a really
> bad system - which debian is not (or if you did EVERYTHING as root).

On a linux system exporting disk space to Windows machines, it is indeed
practical to have an anti-virus able to report if your shares contains
virii.

        Cordialement,

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