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RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause
From: "Wes Noonan" <mailinglists () wjnconsulting com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:10:01 -0600
Are you aware of any A/V desktop software for Linux? I'm not. So even if I wanted to run A/V on our desktops, I couldn't.
Network Associates makes one. VirusScan for Unix. Been out for a while now, at least a couple of years. There are others as well. Google "virus protection software for linux".
A/V software will do exactly nothing to protect against worms that exploit buffer overflows in running services.
This is not quite correct. Nachia and Blaster, as well as Code Red and its variants are all detectable and preventable with virus protection. While they may not stop the worm on the network, they can and do stop systems from becoming infected and propagating the worm. Wes Noonan mailinglists () wjnconsulting com http://www.wjnconsulting.com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- 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)
- RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Ron DuFresne (Jan 16)
- RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Ron DuFresne (Jan 16)
- RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause David F. Skoll (Jan 18)
- Religion... was RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Wes Noonan (Jan 18)
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- RE: Religion... was RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Wes Noonan (Jan 18)
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- RE: Religion... was RE: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause Wes Noonan (Jan 18)