Hi Joe (???), Here's an article that's in response to those claims made by Anti-Virus companies.
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/anti-virus.html Keep reading and learning about linux and you'll start to understand why it is so much more secure than Winders. /curtis ><> --**--**--** Current Linux kernel 2.4.13-12mdk uptime: 1 day 7 hours 49 minutes. On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 18:29, [ © ª N ª ® i º JØË ]¹ wrote: > Robin, Mandrake-group: > > Thank you for your comments. I do not know much about linux. I am > a fisheries biologist and have been stuck to msoft for years. I > have several gigabytes of compressed articles, data analyses, > mathematical simulations, references, etc. on MSoft file formats. > Bad. I am trying to, gradually, migrate to linux (I choose > Mandrake out of several distributions I tested). > > The virus issue is of great concern to me. Profesionally, *I am* > those files (years of work). > > I have read some viruses could attack linux systems and more are > expected to come. I do not know well the internals of linux but, > can you be sure of ... say ... a "macro" virus (such as those > which destroy the MSWord .doc format+contents) is impossible to > make for a linux system running ... say ... StarOffice ? > > Cheers, > > ---- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Ø©Eªnº - þªT®iª - NØsT®ª] > ---- > Wednesday, December 26, 2001, 2:20:11 [Islas Canarias, GMT]. > ---- > > > > robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió [25/12/2001, 12:39]: > > r> For a workstation you shouldn't need antivirus software - it's normally > r> only necessary for servers where people are uploading stuff like Word > r> documents (e.g. someone using MS Word on a virtual drive could in theory > r> infect their files on that drive). > > r> A virus, in the strict sense of the word, can't do much, if anything, on > r> a Linux system. As someone (on this list?) pointed out, to infect a > r> linux box with a classic e-mail ploy, you'd have to do something like this: > > r> Dear user, > r> Please copy the attached file foo to your home directory, or better > r> still, if you have root priveleges, somewhere like /usr/bin. Then type > r> chmod a+x foo. Hit return, type ./foo and hit return again. > > > r> There are a few worms that can get into a Linux system, but again you > r> should only be worried if you're running a server - for normal > r> workstation purposes, it's enough to set security on Mandrake to "medium". > > r> Robin > > r> [ © ª N ª ® i º JØË ]¹ wrote: > > >>Mandrake-group: > >> > >>I wonder whether > >> > >> · an antivirus is mandatory for Mandrake > >> > >>and, if positive, > >> > >> · which one is recommended. > >> > >>Is there any good open source antivirus (for workstations) ? > >> > >>Cheers, > >> > >>---- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Ø©Eªnº - þªT®iª - NØsT®ª] > >>---- > >>Tuesday, December 25, 2001, 0:02:34 [Islas Canarias, GMT]. > >>---- --**--**--** Current Linux kernel 2.4.13-12mdk uptime: 1 day 7 hours 49 minutes. > >>end of file > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >> > > > > > ---- > end of file > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --
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