Clamav

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 23:50:28 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 13:39 -0700, jdow wrote:
> 1) I have seen at least one active exploit, I fortunately recognized
> myself, for Linux in my <mumble> years with computers. (longer than
> yours, sonny, although I took a 6 year hiatus in there. {^_-}) (Even
> my beloved Amiga (made some money off that system) had online
> exploits.)

What has this got to so with viruses? Are any of the exploits you
mention communicable by virus? Every one I've seen so far requires the
attacker to be physically sitting in front of a system console.

> 2) Some of us live on mixed networks. Open Sores does NOT pay for my
> bread, water, and roof, let alone any recreation. So I have Windows
> machines around. ClamAV is handy to have in the Linux machine, which
> is the master server for the system.

Which is exactly what I said, if you care to re-read my earlier post.

poc



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