Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:30:50 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infected by virus Message-ID: <20011106233050.A307@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011106204927.B78104@keyslapper.org>; from leblanc%2Bfreebsd@keyslapper.org on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:49:28PM -0500 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107092016.00a46320@po.pacific.net.sg> <20011106204927.B78104@keyslapper.org>
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:49:28PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> On 11/07/01 09:21 AM, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong sat at the `puter and typed:
> > Hi ;
> > My FreeBSD seems infected by worm virus . could somebody tell how to
> > clean such virus . Where can I get anti-virus software for FreeBSD ? Please
> > advise .....
>
> Not likely. Unix operating systems, when properly administered, are
> not susceptible to virii.
Any operating system "when properly administered" is not susceptible
to virii. There is nothing about UNIX-like operating systems that
makes them more secure against virii than most any other multiuser-OS,
say, Windows NT or 2k.
A false sense of security is worse than no security.
--
Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu
| cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org
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