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Date:      Wed, 20 May 1998 18:25:32 -0400
From:      Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com>
To:        Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@elr346.ateng.az.honeywell.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Virus on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19980520182532.04857@kublai.com>
In-Reply-To: <3562D7D7.65F60C0@elr346.ateng.az.honeywell.com>; from Emmanuel Gravel on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 01:17:11PM -0700
References:  <XFMail.980520152135.markjr@shmOOze.net> <3562D7D7.65F60C0@elr346.ateng.az.honeywell.com>

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On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 01:17:11PM -0700, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
> Thanks for all the info.  Now for a second question.  Since there is an
> antivirus made by McAfee for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX (and one or two
> more Unix OS's) is there anything similar made for FreeBSD?  What can
> one download/purchase to prevent:
> 
> 1- Arrival/infection of the system from any virus that would target
>    FreeBSD?

Don't run anything as root and it has a fairly limited chance of spreading
to anything. :-)

> 2- Presence of virii for any other OS in any file on the system?

Use McAfee's tools for various other Operating Systems.

-- 
Brian Cully						<shmit@erols.com>
``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung
  upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the
  best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There)

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