On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, WA9ALS - John wrote: > From: "Elton Woo" <elwoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Bruce W. Bigby wrote: > > >On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:18, Elton Woo wrote: > > >>WA9ALS - John wrote: > > >> > > >>>Another naive question from a Linux newbie - Are you guys all running > > >>>antivirus software on your Fedora box? .... > My understanding is that these programs detect WINDOWS viruses as received > on a linux box. If you don't have Windows, "What, Me Worry?" > - John, feeling slightly less newbie Do not ignore the fact that some windows software runs under emulators. Thus a vb script hidden in a spread sheet or word document could do things that are unexpected. It is unexpected actions where the big risks live. Years ago all the default actions for mode line controls in vi, vim and emacs were changed because of risks. Not unlike the vb risks in word. See stuff like # vim: set expandtab: -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48 -a*t- yahoo-dot-com
