Good anti-virus programs for Linux

Jerry Feldman gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net
Sat Aug 28 09:46:17 EDT 1999


John Chambers Wrote:
> Jerry Feldman writes:
> Of course, those running linux on an Alpha  or  SPARC  or  any  other
> non-Intel hardware probably don't need to worry for a while.
I disagree with this. This is certainbly true in the case where the virus 
is an Intel binary. But, what if the virus is a script, or even part ov a 
Java byte code.  Remember that the Internet worm back in 1988 travelled 
through many different Unix systems. No system is imune.

Jerry Clabaugh wrote:
> http://www.cyber.com/papers/plausibility.html






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