[huskerlug] Re: antivirus

On Friday 22 August 2003 10:17 am, you wrote:
> What do you guys/girls run for anti-virus on your Linux machines?=20
> I'm looking for open source and also, if possible, ok for
> commercial use.
>
> I've done some searching, but most seem to be free for
> non-commercial use only...
>

No need.
Last fall I did research into Linux worms and viruses.   Symantice has=20
(did?) have the best collection, 42 in all.   Of them most were=20
laboratory speciments, as indicated by the fact they were 'found' on=20
less than 3 PCs.   That's like finding a needle in 35 million=20
haystacks.    Anyway, only three, which were worms,  had any effect=20
at all. Two were old and infected less than 500 machines.  The worse=20
occured last October and was called Slapper.  It infected 7,000=20
machince in Easter Europe.   The only way those machines could have=20
been infected was if the user was running as root  -- which is=20
something you NEVER want to do.

Linux worms and viruses would require user assistance in order to=20
work.   Sort of like receiving an email which said " send the email=20
to all people in your address book and then run 'rm -rf' as root"

The big worry for Linux is come cracker hacking into your box=20
manually.    You can test for that by regularly using chkrootkit.

Keeping your patches up todate and running a good firewall, like=20
Shorewall (Firestarter is a good GUI for it), should keep you worry=20
free.
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Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals
GrayGeek

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