-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-07-08 at 13:42 -0400, James Knott wrote:
FWIW, one thing I would like to scan is USB external drives. Recently I plugged my USB flash drive into a customer's computer and wound up with a virus on it. Many years ago, floppies were a common way of spreading a virus. Now USB drives fill that role.
But surely, that virus was not propagated by the linux machine, and it probably came from another windows machine. I met the first IBM PC virus when I was a student somewhere in the eighties. A dancing ball. There were two viruses then, one a boot sector virus, another attached itself to the end of executables. I killed them with my "bare hands", I had no antivirus, not invented. I used msdos debugger and pctools. Things have changed. I was never infected. Not then, not ever since. And I have never infected anyone. And since I use Linux, hundreds of virus have come my way in email. I have never propagated any of them, I have never been affected. I don't even have to think about them. It is not that difficult. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIc7JAtTMYHG2NR9URAmsgAJ4/7YF9USEyLPB6l3hWutSOXamWWgCeK8YT fcYReeogQHty0WL9HbAQR2Y= =OhrV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org