Re: Linux Viruses?

From: Steve Schreiber (sschreibATTmagmaDOTTca)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:50:41 -0500

Tropical Cooler wrote:
> Do I need to protect my RHAT 9 system from viruses?
>
>
Ah, good to run one at least once a year so you get the warm fuzzies. :)

On a more serious note, if you run Samba file/print Servers with Windows
clients, run VScans everywhere, as you want to get virus' on a network
drive before a Windows Client hits it. It's the smart thing to do. As
for Linux workstations, I don't usually bother since it would be fairly
difficult for me to get hit with a Linux virus in my situtation.
Determine if your situation puts you at low risk or high risk and decide
based on that ie... like you have a default installed system sitting
directly on the Internet == high risk. I would personally be more
concerned about getting 'rooted' that getting nailed with a virus.

        S. 

-- 
--> GNU/Linux is user friendly... it's just picky about its friends.

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