security

[Brian Cluff]

I have a copy of OSF.8759 somewhere.  I was infected a long time ago 
courtesy of an infected database server from a commercial library 
information system that my work had just purchased.

That thing was as infectious as it gets.  If you cleaned up your system 
and missed even a single binary, it would reinfect all the other 
binaries almost immediately.  The only reason I even noticed that I had 
it was that certain binaries (ls) started crashing under certain 
circumstances.  No slow downs or anything else like that.

That was the one and only virus that I have ever gotten on Linux and 
it's been over 10 years since that wonderful experience.

Brian Cluff

On 02/10/2014 07:41 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> 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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