Don't mean to be rude but there ARE virusses for Unix. That's one of the BIG myths out there. The nasa worm (also a 'virus') was NOT a virus ? Not in the strict sense of the definition computer virus but tell that to Nasa.
Check out www.f-secure.com or any other AV company and you'll find some very interesting feedback on Li/Uni/ux viral activities. Greets, Joris -----Original Message----- From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:47 PM To: Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: virus detection On 05-Feb-2001 Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote: > Hello, > > I posted a question earlier about a kernel panic. > I don't know exactly where to report this, but I apparently got infected by > a virus: > /etc, /sbin, /bin and so on are owned by gandalf, > 'find' has disappeared. > /var has disappeared. > there are no known virus for UNIX. sorry. You may have been bitten by hardware failure, software bugs, your own accidental rm -rf, but a bug is not your problem. If this machine is on the net directly, perhaps you were attacked? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
