On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 05.10.2004 schrieb Temlakos um 18:33: > > But as more people get fed up with "WinDoze" or "Window$" or however you > > want to spell it, what will happen when cyber-terrorists start attacking > > Linux directly with virus operations? That's what some of my clients are > > asking me right now. What do I tell them? > Again: viruses are a result of bad OS structures since early DOS (how > much viruses do you know for BSDs, Solaris or other UNIXes?) and much > laziness and stupidity on the users side. Getting stuck in the 'Windows-Anti-Virus' abstraction for linux security is a bad thing. (for that matter - it isn't sufficient even for windows - i.e - antivirus software isn't a substitute for 'Windows Update fixes') You might want to check out 'chkrootkit' - a took that can check for some of the hack-ins for linux. Satish
