vulnerability of Linux

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Sun Nov 27 16:55:50 UTC 2005


>>>>> "j" == jdow  <jdow at earthlink.net> writes:

j> I am also not sure whether ClamAV scans for Linux malware as well
j> as the windows malware it nails.

Just FYI:

> sigtool -l|grep -i linux|wc -l
108

> sigtool -l|grep -i linux|head
Backdoor.Linux.Suki.A
Exploit.Linux.Da2.B
Linux.Alaeda.A
Trojan.Linux.Small.I
DDoS.Linux.Fork
DoS.Linux.Blitz
DoS.Linux.Chass
DoS.Linux.Octopus
Exploit.Linux.MySQL.20b4
Exploit.Linux.Pine.v456.Sorbo

so ClamAV does find various Linux-based viruses and worms in scanned
files

 - J<




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