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On Friday 01 October 2004 06:41 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2004 2:31 pm, James Knott wrote:
> > Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
> > > Is anybody out there using any good, free, virus protection
> > > software?
> >
> > f-prot
>
> How much of a problem are Linux viruses anyway?  I thought that most
> of them depend on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, like the
> ones that try to do things with your address book.   It's not that
> Linux viruses are inconceivable, but rather that Linux is a much less
> attractive target for the virus creators.   Why stretch to the top of
> the tree when there's so much low-hanging fruit in the Windows world?
>
> Paul Abrahams
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The virus protection software he asks about and the others mention are 
for Window's virus, not Linux.  When you run a network of machines some 
Linux, some Windows you still need to catch the Windows viruses.  :o)

Lee

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