There once was a mythical mall security guard who was ordered to crack down on pick-pockets. Whereupon he spied an unsavory character walk up behind one lady after another, and deftly remove the cash from their purses'... And said he to himself, I'm supposed to stop "pick-POCKETS" not "pick-PURSES" thus he did nothing...
The fact that an anti-virus software program is called anti-virus doesn't mean it shouldn't try to catch the worms, and trojans too. Can I please generalize all such malicious code as mal-ware? Does anyone know if Mr Weiss was correct (in the broader sense) That F-prot only scanned for M$ mal-ware? Or does it not also try to find mal-ware that can wreak havoc on linux boxes as well. I'm by no means expert enough to know for sure if I made the right decision when I installed the linux version of F-prot on my PC But I'd like to think that it, at least tries to protect my linux from mal-ware... But if anyone knows how good it is at it, please do tell! -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Within the redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #8113: Sam Flory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did say: > Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > > >I was under the impression that F-prot only scanned for M$ virii. Does > >clamav scan for M$ virii, *nix virii, or both? > > > > > Linux virii? Name one? Yes there are a number of worms, but no real > virii. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
