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From: J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com>
To: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@aracnet.com>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
	Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
	"Holzrichter, Bruce" <bruce.holzrichter@monster.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: please kindly get back to me
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:11:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CFBF795.3090602@tmsusa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206031302050.1038-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>



M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

>Now that there are Linux viruses, maybe we also need an open source
>virus scanner.
>  
>
Ah yes, the perennial "linux virus" scare -
the anti virus labs are hard at work trying
to drum up new business....

The thing with linux/unix "virii" is, they
are actually for the most part trojans -
they've been in labs for years, the problem
is that there is no suitable transport vector!

You'd have to dupe an unwitting superuser
(now there's a dangerous combination) into
running the "virus" by hand - sort of like
the "honor system" virus....

Joe




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-03 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-03 15:33 please kindly get back to me Holzrichter, Bruce
2002-06-03 19:00 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-06-03 19:06   ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-03 19:23     ` Matti Aarnio
2002-06-03 19:43       ` stoffel
2002-06-04  0:37       ` Alan Cox
2002-06-04  7:10       ` Rik van Riel
2002-06-04  8:11         ` J Sloan
2002-06-03 19:50     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-06-03 20:16       ` Davide Libenzi
2002-06-03 20:03     ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-06-03 20:08       ` Gerhard Mack
2002-06-03 23:11       ` J Sloan [this message]
2002-06-04  0:20         ` Austin Gonyou
2002-06-04 20:25         ` Michael H. Warfield
2002-06-03 20:54     ` Rik van Riel
2002-06-03 20:58     ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-06-03 22:51     ` J Sloan
2002-06-04 14:25     ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-04 21:49 Jesse Pollard
2002-06-04  4:26 Hank Leininger
2002-06-04  2:04 Matt_Domsch
2002-06-04  3:17 ` J Sloan
2002-06-03 15:46 JOSEPH  EDWARD.
2002-06-03 15:26 JOSEPH  EDWARD.

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