From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 5 7:50:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736A537BB1F for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 07:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09191; Fri, 5 May 2000 11:03:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3912DFAB.8316A008@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 10:50:19 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com Organization: Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mcafee uvscan References: <20000505143959.9C195197D@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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