On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:44:06AM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > What makes you think this is a virus? I don't think you would be able > to disinfect a Linux virus with 95. What is the process that is loading? > > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Rob Collins wrote: > > > ...and a fairly larger problem: I've discovered I have a virus on my > > machine. I figure I can get rid of the virus by loading up and > > disinfecting it in Windows95 (blech) -- but it may or may not be > > infecting my Linux installation (it -appears- to load as a child process > > to xdm on init)... b4 I do any install I want to know that I've > > disinfected my system, but don't know how to go about that in Linux. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. :)
I DOUBT you have a "virus". The fact is that there is only 1 documented case of a virus for linux. This virus was written as a test and there has never been an outbreak of it. The reason: Viruses tend to spread on other system because there is no implicit protection of files. This means that any user who uses a system and executes an infected file can infect EVERY file in the system Under linux ONLY a virus run as root could do this. 99% of the time it is run as a normal user and can't infect other people's files... thus, since MOST users don't own any executables...it can't infect anything. A windows 95 virus cleaner could NOT clean any such virus, i fyou had one. Also...a virus which runs under windows could NOT run on a Linux system (executable file formats are different) as for a child process to xdm...that not so strange ;) show us some output (ps aux and pstree) and maybe we can figure out what this process is that has you puzzled ;) Welcome to Linux :) its quite a differnt world here. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
