Linux-and-Virus Programs?

[Sina Bahram]

Thanks, I'm familiar with that. however, I was refering to executable
files and not self extracting executables, which is most likely what he
has downloaded. It is almost certainly a virus anyways.

Take care,
Sina

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[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 6:14 PM
To: sbahram at nc.rr.com; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Linux-and-Virus Programs?


Actually, if you have a self-extracting zip file, which would be an
executable, you can run that file through the unzip program in
gnu/linux, and it will unzip the contents of the exe for you.

Greg


On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:58:56PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote:
> Janina how can one unzip a .exe file?
> 
> Also, viruses can do massive damage on temporary user accounts. I 
> don't believe this would be a wise course of action to pursue. I 
> believe you might be thinking about this advice on a Linux box, but 
> certainly not on Windows.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
> No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large 
> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
> 

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