Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

["Exibar" <exibar@thelair.com>]

sheesh,

Linux in the wild viruses that come to mind:  Scalper, Ramen, Lion,
Simile.....  I'm sure there are lots more as well.

  Linux is NOT immune to viruses or worms, plain and simple.

  Just because the number of Linux viruses/worms are much smaller than W32
viruses/worms doesn't mean that they don't exist.  The number of Linux
installs are much smaller than W32 installs as well.  If I was a Vx'r would
I write a Linux virus that would max out at 500,000 computers to infect, or
would I write a W32 virus that would max out at 50,000,000 + computers to
infect worldwide.  W32 has, what, 92% of the computer desktops someone
mentioned?  That's a heck of a lot of bang for the Vx'r buck!

 Exibar


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>
To: "Exibar" <exibar@thelair.com>
Cc: <tlarholm@pivx.com>; <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help
the cause


> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Exibar wrote:
>
> >  Will any of these do?  Will you still think you don't need AV on Linux
now?
> > here's a partial list..... don't choke too hard now!
>
> Those are all proof-of-concept.  I'm unaware of a single production
> Linux machine anywhere in the world succumbing to one of them.  Perhaps
> you can provide evidence to the contrary?
>
> Furthermore, most of them are not self-propagating, but require active
> cooperation from the recipient.
>
> I do not need nor use AV on Linux.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
>

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