On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:26, Larry Gilson wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ron Johnson > > I don't believe that any Unix-like variants have ever caught a > > *virus*(except in a labratory). If you have evidence to the > > contrary, I'dlove to hear it. > > http://search.symantec.com/custom/us/query.html > > http://www.sophos.com/search/index.cgi?scope=whole_site〈=english&terms=L > inux > > > While Linux viruses are more rare and have less impact than MS-based > viruses, they do exist.
When doing the Sophos search, the 1st one it came up with is Slapper-C. Guess what, it's not a virus!! It's a worm. These were the only 2 *viruses* I found: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/linuxosfa.html http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/linuxrsta.html If they were really floating around in "the wild" infecting machines, I *guarantee* that it would have made "front page" news on every tech news web site on all 7 continents. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code maintainability. But beware of Perl. Terse syntax... more than one way to do it...default variables. The dark side of code maintainability are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you when code you write. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
