I'm a curious one...
get a sound laugh at this URL:
http://www.nai.com/about/news/press/1997/020597.asp
what Mcafee think of the monstrous bliss virus... :-)))
over all it's interesting to see that a company like mcafee
has a wish to expand their market on the linux platform.....
cheers
ciao fede
macker wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Stephan Greene wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 6 May 1998, Ezekiel J. Krahlin wrote:
> >
> > > What is available for Red Hat 5.0, in the way of antivirus programs? Thanks
> > > in advance.
> >
> > I believe there is a version of Network Associates (ex McAfee) virsu
> > scanner software that runs fine on Linux. There may be others as well
> > that a web search would find.
> >
> > FWIW, the McAfee scanner will detect MSDOS/Windows virii as long as they
> > are on an uncompressed (no .zip, .tar.gz) file on the Linux box file
> > system.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Since there's only one known Linux virus in existance, Bliss, McAfee's
> virus scanner is only for looking for DOS/Windows viruses. If your
> concern as to a virus scanner for RedHat is that your Linux system will
> get infected with viruses, worry not about viruses, just stay up to date
> on security and bugfixes.
>
> Here's the help screen from uvscan (McAfee's scanner):
>
> Usage: uvscan [option list] <file>
>
> -c, --clean clean infected files (when possible.)
> -d, --data-directory DIRECTORY use data files in DIRECTORY.
> --delete delete infected files.
> -e, --exit-on-error exit immediately upon encountering
> errors.
> -f, --file FILE get a list of files to scan from FILE.
> -h, --help print (this) help information.
> --ignore-compressed ignore compressed files.
> --ignore-links don't follow symbolic links.
> -m, --move DIRECTORY move files to DIRECTORY, preserving
> path.
> --one-file-system don't descend directories on other
> filesystems.
> -r, --recursive scan directories recursively.
> -s, --selected scan only selected files.
> --summary show summary results after scanning.
> -v, --verbose verbosely report progress.
> --virus-list display information on known viruses.
>
> >From the man page:
>
> --ignore-compressed
> Do not scan compressed files. By default, Uvscan
> will internally unpack certain kinds of compressed
> files and scan the decompressed form.
>
> Cheers!
>
> -macker
>
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