Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxx>]

I did get infected with a boot sectro virus I brought home from school on
a floppy.
The way I beat it was to run FProt to clean ignoring memory and rebooting
the box physically.
then I rechecked with FPROT scan everything and no virus.  Even
rebuilding the bootsector with LILO failed to remove it.  Later I looked
it up it was a harmless one but annoying.

CWSIV

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:40:38 -0500 Kelly Fulks <kfulks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
>On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:19, david stevenson wrote:
>> On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:55 pm, Kelly Fulks wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 02 September 2003 15:52, Praise wrote:
>> > > Alle 22:33, marted=EC 2 settembre 2003, Marco Oliveira ha 
>scritto:
>> >
>> > [stuff deleted]
>> >
>> > > > 5 - What kind of protection could i use (Anti-Virus software) 
>?
>> > >
>> > > Antivirus for Linux detect only windows viruses.
>> >
>> > Not totally true.  I know that F-Prot will detect Windows virii on 
>a
>> > Linux machine, but it will also look for Unix/Linux worms and 
>trojans
>> > within the system.  You can download it for free (personal use 
>with
>> > Linux) and it is inexpensive on Windows and seems to work.  I 
>haven't
>> > tried the server side stuff for Linux or Windows.
>>
>> Out of interest


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