security

Derek Trotter expat.arizonan at gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 19:41:12 MST 2014


Linux viruses known to be out there already.
http://www.unixmen.com/meet-linux-viruses/

Why linux will never suffer from viruses to the extent windows does.
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Why-Linux-Will-Never-Suffer-From-Viruses-Like-Windows/

Also it's good for a linux machine to have antivirus software installed 
on it if it interacts with windows machines.  For example; if it's a 
samba server or some other server windows boxes connect to.  If you have 
antivirus software on your linux box, you can check emails and 
attachments for viruses so you don't pass them on to windows users.


On 02/10/2014 07:13 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> you know, my attitude has been,'Virus? What's a virus?' since moving 
> to linux. There is only ONE virus for linux that I can think of....... 
> never mind. I can't think of any. Is that the way it still is?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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