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Dennis "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Registered Linux User #382526
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kasper Thunoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <newbie@linux-mandrake.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1
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How necessary is virus protection in linux - keep getting conflicting info
about this?
Thanks Rosemary
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Depends on how much you interact with windows :) There are "viruses" for linux which mostly come in the form of rootkits. This is more a backdoor than it is a virus, and the attacker would need to have access on a superuser level. Some claim to have made linux worms which is more virus-like, but the chance of running on to one of those is slim to none. The best one can do is to keep ones system up to date, especially if you allow external access (ssh, ftp, www etc.), and delete mail from people you dont know.
For my part I dualboot and have other windows machines in my home network so I use antivirus (clamav) on linux as a precaution, and to check mails.
Hope that gives you an idea.
/Kasper
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