Messages in this thread |  | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: [masq] 1st virus in Linux :( (fwd) | Date | 11 Feb 1997 17:31:36 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.970210120420.9808F-100000@gil-galad.sasol.com>, Bennie Venter <venb0113@sasol.com> wrote: >On 7 Feb 1997, david parsons wrote: > >> I'm not a spokesman for McAfee, just the person who ported Virus Scan >> to Linux, but I didn't read the press release like that at all. (The >> release even mentions that McAfee produces antiviral products for a >> large wad of operating systems, including Linux.) All it says is that >> this particular virus doesn't run on other platforms, and it certainly >> doesn't even come anywhere close to implying that MS operating systems >> are not susceptable to virii. >> >> ____ >> david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us >> \/ >Just strange that there is no CERT advisory released on this issue - I >would accept CERT info more readily than I would from a vendor trying to >sell me software.
Considering that none of the current McAfee antiviral programs are intended to detect Linux virii, I don't think that anyone at McAfee really wants to open themselves up to a lawsuit and ridicule by pretending that their existing DOS, Windows, and Macintosh scanners will reliably detect virii intended for a different OS with a different executable format, and I certainly don't want to see the quality of my babies demeaned because people are attempting to use them for something they aren't designed to do.
____ david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us \/
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