I brought a boot sector virus home from the local university on floppy.
FProt detected it but would not remove while it was in memory.
I tried going to linux and rebuilding the Lilo but the virus was still
there.
I cheated and told Fprot to clean ignoring memory and rebooted. I did
this three times.
Ran Fprot one last time maximum scan. No virus found.
CWSIV
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:31:11 -0500 lee
I am new to linux. I am running suse 8.2 pro. I am running a dual boot
windows me. I use the linux for 99% of the time. I use kmail for all emailings. My question is with this set up, if a virus is sent to me can it seek out windows? Or since linux is running it will not work? And what anti virus do you folks think is the best to use? I get lots of emails as being the webmaster. I got hit with a virus a while back while running stright windows. Thanks.
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Since Windblows isn't running the virus is in 99.99% completely ineffecti>ve. There is no environment for it to exploit. Generally the want to exploit an ActiveX, *.VBS, etc code and there's nothing there for the virus to use. Think of it like trying to run a win app in Linux - it does nothing. Now if you have a Wine setup and it is executed that way it might cause some problem, most like just screwing up your win setup in your home dir. The same might apply in a VMware or Win4Lin setup as well, but other than
with that
they're essentially null.
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