On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:10:02 -0500 WA9ALS - John wrote: > My understanding is that these programs detect WINDOWS viruses as received > on a linux box. If you don't have Windows, "What, Me Worry?" [mikec@lugh f-prot]$ sudo f-prot -virno Password: SIGN.DEF created 29 December 2003 SIGN2.DEF created 29 December 2003 MACRO.DEF created 22 December 2003 DOS/Windows: 25989 viruses and 43528 Trojans Word/Excel: 7997 viruses and Trojans Java: 2 viruses and 126 Trojans BAT: 2537 viruses and Trojans IRC INI: 1349 viruses and Trojans Script: 3791 viruses and Trojans INF: 5 viruses and Trojans Unix shell: 253 viruses and Trojans Ami: 2 viruses and Trojans WinBat: 4 viruses and Trojans PIF: 19 viruses and Trojans PalmOS: 4 viruses and Trojans PHP: 11 viruses and Trojans Unix: 312 viruses and Trojans In addition, over 15750 viruses are identified using generic identification, so the total number of viruses and Trojans known to F-PROT is somewhere over 101600. [mikec@lugh f-prot]$ So, *nix problems are not great, but they do exist. However I haven't seen one in the wild since the Morris worm. Mike -- Mike Causer Email - mailto:mikec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG KeyID 1C2DDA07 WWW - http://www.mikecauser.org Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement - http://www.wicken.org.uk
