On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:55:22 +0000 John Bowden disseminated the following: > Ok you have got me worried now !Is it a win virus or one writen for Linux?
Guaranteed it's someone's Windows box has been zombied with a worm and is spewing this crap. As far as I know, there are *no* Linux viruses in the wild. There are proof of concept vulnerabilities, and it is not impossible for someone to 'own' your Linux box if they target you specifically, but on the whole as long as you do regular checks for rootkits you should be OK. > How do I check that clam is working and configure it. Not sure about that one. I bet there's a log file for it somewhere, if you check the docs it may tell you where to look. ClamAV expert around? > I have a smoothwall firewall so I don't worry too much about the worms and > it's logs tell me if a trojan has been inadvertivly downloaded, My windoz > machine runs norton, updated daily Actually, I've found several times that AVG catches malware that Norton doesn't, and it's free, and got a *way* smaller footprint than Norton's bloatware. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 13:12:03 up 25 days, 4:23, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -- William Gibson
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