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Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause
From: "Exibar" <exibar () thelair com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:54:34 -0500
sheesh, Linux in the wild viruses that come to mind: Scalper, Ramen, Lion, Simile..... I'm sure there are lots more as well. Linux is NOT immune to viruses or worms, plain and simple. Just because the number of Linux viruses/worms are much smaller than W32 viruses/worms doesn't mean that they don't exist. The number of Linux installs are much smaller than W32 installs as well. If I was a Vx'r would I write a Linux virus that would max out at 500,000 computers to infect, or would I write a W32 virus that would max out at 50,000,000 + computers to infect worldwide. W32 has, what, 92% of the computer desktops someone mentioned? That's a heck of a lot of bang for the Vx'r buck! Exibar ----- Original Message ----- From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs () roaringpenguin com> To: "Exibar" <exibar () thelair com> Cc: <tlarholm () pivx com>; <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Exibar wrote:Will any of these do? Will you still think you don't need AV on Linux
now?
here's a partial list..... don't choke too hard now!Those are all proof-of-concept. I'm unaware of a single production Linux machine anywhere in the world succumbing to one of them. Perhaps you can provide evidence to the contrary? Furthermore, most of them are not self-propagating, but require active cooperation from the recipient. I do not need nor use AV on Linux. Regards, David.
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- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause, (continued)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Gregory A. Gilliss (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Ron DuFresne (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 17)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Exibar (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause David F. Skoll (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Exibar (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause David F. Skoll (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Tobias Weisserth (Jan 15)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Exibar (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause David F. Skoll (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Exibar (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause David F. Skoll (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Exibar (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Tobias Weisserth (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause David F. Skoll (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Exibar (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause David F. Skoll (Jan 16)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Bruce Ediger (Jan 17)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 17)
- Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Tobias Weisserth (Jan 17)
- RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Wes Noonan (Jan 16)