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Re: [PLUG] Fw: Antivirus for Linux
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> Just out of curiosity (well for my education actually), are you referring
> to a virus scanner that protects a Linux mail system from passing along
> windows viruses or a system primarily designed to detect Linux
> viruses? How serious a threat (i.e. how common) are Linux viruses?
The former. The latter don't (effectively) exist. I believe there was a proof of concept virus for Unix once, but most Unix security issues are either holes, buffer overflows, worms or Trojan horses. Not self-replicating things like viruses.
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