On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:28:38PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The windoze world is full of all kinds of viruses. Is it the same in Linux?
>I just received an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (probably a fake)
Yep.
>So now I'm back in Linux. I can just delete the file but before doing
>that I'd like to know what options do I have. Can I save this AHAOFIA.EXE
>to my hdd w/o harm to my system? ... so that I can send it as an attachment
>to my email to Norton and PC-cillin? Can I possible track where this
>came from?
If you're that interested, I would suggest investing in VMware for
GNU/Linux or similar, and set up an "undo-able" machine/Win32
installation/instance/whatever. Then you can boot this VM, let the
potential virus tear apart your VM in whatever way it wants, and then
just hit VMware's undo function and you get back a usable VM again.
Or just simply copy the virtual disk and config files and such,
boot/ruin, delete working copy, copy/move back saved copy.
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