On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:46 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Saturday 24 September 2005 1:51 pm, Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
Well, I'm not going to start my e-mail saying that "I've been away from linux for a couple of years and bla, bla, bla". Still a newbie and learning the basics from scrathc.
Comment: It wasn't popular to hear about viruses in linux before but now seem to be an issue and I understand (according to previous e-mails) that there's some AV development.
Question: please briefly introduce me about the issue. What has happened lately?
Not much has changed. Most anti-virus you see 'for' Linux is used to scan files, emails and attachments, and other Windows systems on the LAN for Windows based viruses. Anti-virus utilities aren't really used to rid Linux systems of Linux viruses but to rid Linux and Windows systems of Windows viruses and scumware (spyware, adware, malware, etc).
Stan
Right, I'd been looking for a collective noun, "scumware" is the perfect fit. I've been getting more and more calls to clean up scumware on Windows, the latest was today, a box won't boot because CONFIG.SYS and HIMEM.SYS files are mysteriously missing and they don't have a recovery disk for Win95, so it's still a lump of scrap iron with lights until I can find a solution. One that I'm thinking of is to install Win98SE over Win95 tomorrow, hopefully without losing files, I'm a Windows novice, so wish me luck.
You can do that with the upgrade disk, Sid, not with a new install disk, you need to start fresh to a point. BTW don't upgrade to fat32 on the install, the conversion process is very memory intensive, and if you have any bum ram, it'll hang and you lose data. Beentheredonethat.