Hello, BC> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:46:51PM +0200, Leanne Gibson wrote: BC>> I have a client running Debian V2.1 via a dial up modem for e-mail. BC>> They were hit by virus the other day and are looking for anti-virus BC>> software for the above version. Please could you come back to me BC>> asap. BC>> BC>> Kind regards BC> BC> I don't know of any Virus's that affect Linux (atleast not this BC> version of Linux). If you are talking about an email Virus that BC> normally affects Windows systems, then you really have nothing to BC> worry about since they cannot affect Linux. If you can be more BC> specific about the problem, maybe there is some way we can help BC> resolve it. BC> BC> Ben BC>
I've heard of the existance of unix/linux virii, but not in the 'wild', not spreadble by e-mail, and the normal 'nix security controls restrict what they can do (another reason not to run as root). Also, virii don't cross OS's (yet) so the likelyhood of anyone getting their Debian system damaged by a virus from an e-mail is so close to nothing as to be the least likely cause of any problems they might be having. Are they actually having problems after receiving this e-mail? In fact, if your user has received a Linux e-mail virus, I would imagine the commercial anti-virus companies would be very pleased to hear from them - another source of fear to scare us with and another product to sell to us. Your user may well have received an e-mail with a warning from a virus scanner on a mailing list, as I did a little while ago here, but if we're not running the target OS we're pretty safe. Bye, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk ...or something.
