Date: 16 Aug 96 20:40:22 EDT From: "Jose F. Reyes" <70573.1405@CompuServe.COM> To: All <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Virus alert on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <960817004022_70573.1405_CHU58-1@CompuServe.COM>
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Hello! I just downloaded the McAfee Viruscan software for FreeBSD and watched in horror how it detected the SYSLOG virus on a number of files on my system. Even worse, it claimed it had 'no remover available'. This happend mostly on gzipped man pages, but there were a few source code, object (.o) and executable files reported as well. A couple of weeks ago I had a hard time doing a 'make world' after downloading the DES code from ftp.freebsd.org. It kept aborting at different places, and always for no reason, for example would complain about not finding a file that was actually present where it was supposed to. It never completed successfully because after 3 days and 15+ attempts, I gave up. Now this virus alert gives me a possible explanation for the phenomenon. Can I trust the FreeBSD version of McAfee Viruscan, or are these reports incorrect? I do trust the DOS, Windows and NT versions. How safe is FreeBSD from viruses? If in fact my system is infected, how do I clean files for which McAfee has no remover available? Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Jose
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