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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Virus scanner for unix (scan for DOS/Mac virus in .zip, .tgz 
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From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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> In lists.freebsd.questions you write:
> 
> >Does anyone know of a virus scanner package for unix that will search through
> >dos/mac files for viruses?
> 
> Well after much searching I found uvlinux.tgz at mcafee's ftp site.  Its a beta
> virus scanner for linux that purpotedly even checks inside certain types of
> compressed files (of course it convieniently doesnt mention which type).
> 
> Now we gotta get em to make a FreeBSD port :)
> 
> [The linux one runs okay so far however..]
> 
> 


Pray tell what does a virus scanner do?

I you build everything from source, how do you even know you'll end up
doing a 
rm -rf /

setuid root?

Having a working knowledge of permissions and not setuiding blindly is 
the best way to prevent destruction...



-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
Member of the League for Programming Freedom