Re: Anti-virus

["Steve Poling" <sdp@xxxxxxxxx>]

the best antivirus is to simply compile all the sources yourself and accept
binaries from nobody. of course, some M$ troll inserted a trojan into a FTP
source after a server that held it was compromised. but the problem was
discovered 10x faster than had it been slipped into the binary of somebody's
distribution.

i wonder if there's mechanisms to prevent folks from compromising RPMs &
foisting them off as, say, RedHat's.

you're right about there being a need for antivirus on linux, but that need
is 1/10 or 1/100th that of windoze.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan DeJong <annette@net-link.net>
To: Klug <klug@klug.armintl.com>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 7:07 PM
Subject: Anti-virus


>I was wondering if there were any anti virus programs for linux?  A
>friend of mine was looking for something for his computer, and i thought
>there might have been a norton version for linux, but i cant quite
>remember.
>
>Thanks,
>-Alan
>
>