Re: Anti-virus

From: Juha Siltala (jsiltala_at_gmx.net)
Date: 01/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:01:44 GMT

In article <87znc690mt.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>, John Hasler wrote:
> Fred writes:
>> ...AFAIK there are no worms that affect linux.
>
> There are no _email_ worms that affect Linux. There are worms, but their
> nature is such that anti-virus programs are irrelevant to them.

Sobig and Swen for example affected my Linux mail server quite annoyingly,
by sheer volume. And the situation is getting worse I'm afraid! MS really
ought to do something.

-- 
Juha Siltala
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/jsiltala/