From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 20 15:26:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11776 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 15:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coleridge.kublai.com (coleridge.kublai.com [207.96.1.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11704 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 15:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: from natasya.kublai.com (natasya.kublai.com [207.172.25.236]) by coleridge.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03153; Wed, 20 May 1998 18:25:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19246; Wed, 20 May 1998 18:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980520182532.04857@kublai.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 18:25:32 -0400 From: Brian Cully To: Emmanuel Gravel , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus on FreeBSD Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com Mail-Followup-To: Emmanuel Gravel , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3562D7D7.65F60C0@elr346.ateng.az.honeywell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <3562D7D7.65F60C0@elr346.ateng.az.honeywell.com>; from Emmanuel Gravel on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 01:17:11PM -0700 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 01:17:11PM -0700, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > Thanks for all the info. Now for a second question. Since there is an > antivirus made by McAfee for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX (and one or two > more Unix OS's) is there anything similar made for FreeBSD? What can > one download/purchase to prevent: > > 1- Arrival/infection of the system from any virus that would target > FreeBSD? Don't run anything as root and it has a fairly limited chance of spreading to anything. :-) > 2- Presence of virii for any other OS in any file on the system? Use McAfee's tools for various other Operating Systems. -- Brian Cully ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message