Good anti-virus programs for Linux

[mmorin at schedsys.com (Massimo Morin)]

Hi,
	sorry, perhaps I don't get it, or perhaps I'm not up to date with the
"virus technology & OS" science but virus on Unices sounds VERY weird to
me.

As far as I know a virus (in the general sense of it) is a program that
replicate itself, spread it around and a certain point it activates
itself for doing some "action" (writing "Marry Christmas" and destroyng
your FS).

For doing all that it has to have access to the system, of course, and
for spreading around and activating itself it has to write to other
process memory and/or other executable file that have to be executed.

This is intrinsecally forbidden due to the unix memory management, and
to the file permission.

It is almost impossible for a single user to knock down the system if it
doesn't become root (so the problem of the su/setuid programs, and
always if root is not so stupid to let holes on the system like easy
password and so forth..)

So even if a virus come to my system at WORST it can damage my files but
never damage the system on its own.

Am I wrong??? 

Thanks
		Massimo

Jerry Feldman {75562} wrote:
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> While most virus attacks today are targeted toward Windoz, having some good
> anti-virus agents on Linux(as well as the other Unixes) is a good thing. If
> anyone has used one, please let us know your experience and opinions.
> Central Command's AVP is currently beta:http://www.avp.com/
> http://www.datafellows.com F-Secure has been available for a while.
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