linux viruses, was: Re: ot, a virus resource needed

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Fri Jan 18 23:08:42 EST 2002


Hmmmm, I was under the impression that there are no Linux viruses.
Greg


On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:24:27PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm, just for future reference, where do you get this fprot from,
> 
> You can apparently get it from http://www.fprot.org/fr_english.htm (their
> main page is in German), and I've also seen it on places like Tucows and
> such.  It seems it's free for personal non-commercial use only.
> 
> > and does it work well with wineyes?
> 
> No idea.  I think there's a DOS version as well as a win32 one, but I've
> not really looked into it.   There's also a link to a linux beta, but it's
> broken right now (the link, not necessarily the software).  It doesn't say
> whether this would check for linux viruses or windows ones in say, E-mail
> attachments and word docs.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
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