Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:59:47PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Dear Debians, > > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > > If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be tol

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Debians, > > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > > If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to > disconnect fr

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Brian May
> "," == , Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ,> A line of virus which might well be possible, and ,> platform-independent, is the planting of Java in HTML. This ,> could hit UNIX/Linux and Windows equally, though I haven't ,> heard of it on Linux. A lot of Linux MUAs can

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:24:42PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > For all intention's purposes, there are no Linux virui. Strickly > speaking this is not true -- there have been virii created for Linux in > the past, but they are not 'in the wild'. For those who like a pointless bit of language t

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't think so. I'm administering the Debian boxes myself. It seems > their prime concern (for the moment?) is anti-virus software. A > system that runs any version of Windows 95 or better (is there? ;-) > and has Norton Anti-Virus installed and run

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread C. Falconer
Okay - call it a Martian[1] solution, but the only way your linux box could hold a virus is if the data was writeable by users. I have 18 Gb of CDROMS shared via samba - the entire partition is mounted read only, and clients can't write to the share anyway. OR the other solution is to run you

RE: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Olaf, On 18-Jul-00 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Dear Debians, > > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > > If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to > disconnect f

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
William T Wilson wrote: >On 18 Jul 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > >> I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian >> and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > >There are no anti-virus programs because there are no viruses. There a

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 18 Jul 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > > > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > > > > There are no an

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Dear Debians, > > > > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > > > > If I can't

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18 Jul 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > > There are no anti-virus programs because there are no v

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Dear Debians, > > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. > > If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-17 Thread William T Wilson
On 18 Jul 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian > and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. There are no anti-virus programs because there are no viruses. There are a variety of security holes that crop u

[Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear Debians, I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to disconnect from the net or use (heaven forbid!) Windows for any kind of