Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

["Exibar" <exibar () thelair com>]

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Exibar wrote:
>
> > But why did you feel that there aren't any Linux viruses?
>
> All right. :-)  Let me reword it!
>
> There are no self-propagating Linux e-mail viruses.  The only Linux
> e-mail viruses are proof-of-concept programs that have never actually
> infected machines other than lab machines designed to test the
> proof-of-concept.

Ahhh, now there we go.  That might just be the case.  Off the top of my head
I can't think of a Linux specific e-mail spreading virus.  Unless you count
"phishing" type e-mails that are completely OS independant and basically
want the user to head out to a web site and enter all their personal info
(ss#, CC#'s etc).

  Exibar

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