Re: resend: Virus and Anti-Virus for Linux


Luis Villa (liv@duke.edu)
Tue, 4 May 1999 23:33:47 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 5 May 1999 hlam@cei-hk.com wrote:

> Is there possible to get virus infected under Linux.

For all intents and purposes, no. There has been (IIRC) exactly one Unix
virus in the wild. EVER. Not a bad rate.

-Luis

P.S. It is reasonably easy to be hacked, which may be just as great a
security concern (perhaps moreso in the States than elsewhere.) For info
on this, go to http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ and check out their
Security-HOWTO.

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