Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 10:50:19 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga <atabraga@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mcafee uvscan Message-ID: <3912DFAB.8316A008@wmptl.com> References: <20000505143959.9C195197D@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br>
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Assuming you're not root user, and that you've done no major hackingound with the O/S, NO. There is no real danger of a virus on FreeBSD. For several reasons: 1 - viruses like the 'Love-Bug' are Visual Basic scripts, (they don't run on FreeBSD) 2 - most other known viruses are exe, com, etc files that are written again to run primarily on windows/dos systems 3 - assuming you did find some odd virus that did at least run on freebsd, as a regular user, you shouldn't have enough permissions on the system to do any real damage 4 - unlike windows, you can tell what FreeBSD is running, (ps -ax is a very nice command) -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga wrote: > > A newbie question: Is there any risk of a virus came in a FreBSD OS? > I don't know nothing about that. > > Ataualpa. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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