On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:36:24AM +0100, Birgitt Simon wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > > > we know you as a distributor of program packages for Linux. We, the H+BEDV > > Datentechnik GmbH, are developer and distributor of the virus protection > > program AntiVir for Linux. Since 1988, when the number of computer viruses > > in Germany could be counted on one hand, we deal with the subject virus > > protection. In the last 11 years we won a lot of awards for our anti-virus > > products in Germany. Our main market is currently Germany and the german > > speaking market. Now we are going to expand our distribution area. > <snip> > > Since when did linux get virus's???? You'd only get them on a really > bad system - which debian is not (or if you did EVERYTHING as root).
On a linux system exporting disk space to Windows machines, it is indeed practical to have an anti-virus able to report if your shares contains virii. Cordialement, -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: Open Hardware: WAW: - - http://www.fr.debian.org http://www.openhardware.org http://www.waw.com - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -"Depuis que ma voiture et mon ordinateur tournent au GPL, les 2 marchent - - beaucoup mieux et pour moins cher... (Linux: Le seul OS non-polluant!)" -