On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:36:46PM -0700, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > Has antivirus software advanced to the point that the following excerpt > from Debian Administration (dated late 2004) is now invalid? I added > the square brackets and their content. > > "Viruses are a fact of life nowadays, be they real viruses or worms > which require manual intervention on the [be]half of a user to [prevent] > propogate[propogation]. Unix systems tend to be immune from the viruses > themselves, but they still have mail queues full of viral messages."
99.9% of evil programs (virus,worm,..) are written to run on a machine(real or virtual) with a ms OS. A free OS machine can store an email with an evil program with no damage to itself but if that email is forwarded to a person with a ms OS, they could be affected. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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