Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections


On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:40 +0200, Clayton wrote:
On 8/7/07, Registration Account <alpha096@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As you know clamAV provides NO realtime virus detection
and from time to time we all need to execute a clamscan
- Well I just performed a clamscan and found 4 folder
which a year or so stored and catagorised emails and
all 4 folders were infected with
Phishing.Heuristics.emal.spoofedDomain virus's. As
almost all emails are held in mbox format I would
suggest everyone to run a scan periodically. Remember
clamAV provides NO repeat NO real time protection, even
if you copy them to a MS Windows or NSF drive or open
an infected file or execute an infected .bin file

But... that isn't a Linux virus is it? That is an email with stuff in
it that is only "triggered" when you respond to the contents... (click
on link, provide personal information in a reply etc) ie.. it is a
social engineering virus, not a Linux virus.


C

On this subject.

If/When Linux makes it big-time on the desktop do you think it will also
be bogged down with virus attacks as MS is now.

Why is it assumed that Linux is less prone to virus attacks? I know to
install stuff in the system, root is necessary, but installing and
running dangerous stuff in the user home directories is easy; you just
need a cunning app to fool the user in executing malicious code.
(given, doing this in Win is easier, but not impossible in any flavour
Linux)

Hans




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