lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1997]   [Feb]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [masq] 1st virus in Linux :( (fwd)
Date
From

In message <m0vsxJG-000XjGC@cesium.transmeta.com>, H. Peter Anvin writes:

> > If I am correct, then McAfee should be clearer about the threat because
> > their web page doesn't help Linux at all by suggesting that it is the
> > first Unix that is suseptable to a virus and pointing out that all the
> > Windoze OSes are not vulnerable to it.

If McAfee said this then they are pretty doggone ignorant. Either that,
or they are hoping a lot of Linux users will be.

You cannot have a virus like a PC/Mac virus on a UNIX system. If a
program run as root does damage, copies itself, whatever, then it is
just a malicious program, not a virus.


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:38    [W:0.121 / U:0.372 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site