Re: Antivirus

Jonathan Dlouhy <dlouhy@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:10:14 -0400

Good point. Thanks for mentioning it. Slightly off the topic, I
have never ceased to be amazed at the attitude some Windows users seem
to have. I think it's due to ignorance, mostly. Most don't know that
Avast or AVG are good anti-virus programs and Norton and Mcafee are
not. I have had countless friends call me in desperation upon having
one of those programs let a virus through. Sometime it's next to
impossible to fix the problem.

Peace,

Jon

Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:

Ed, have you ever run across a virus? In fact I'd be interested to hear 
if anyone has ever had a virus in Linux. I've run Linux for about 15 
years and can't say I've ever had a virus. I've got a Mac with OS X and 
have never had a virus with it either. Windows? Completely different 
story...

I have never run across a virus whose target was Linux.  I have gotten 
emails containing virus whose targets were windows and, like I said, my 
anti-virus caught those and killed them.  Had I not been running an 
anti-virus I could have passed it on in the attachment and been part of the 
problem...not the solution.

So, even though the chances of seeing a virus with a Linux target it is the 
neighborly thing to do to run anti-virus to protect those less fortunate 
than oneself.

Re: Antivirus

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