Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:01:18 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virus scanner for unix (scan for DOS/Mac virus in .zip, .tgz etc.) Message-ID: <9603252201.AA28035@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:24:15 PST." <199603240324.WAA02429@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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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
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