From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 17:41:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04277 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dub-img-4.compuserve.com (dub-img-4.compuserve.com [149.174.206.134]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA04272 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dub-img-4.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id UAA09110; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:41:11 -0400 Date: 16 Aug 96 20:40:22 EDT From: "Jose F. Reyes" <70573.1405@CompuServe.COM> To: All Subject: Virus alert on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <960817004022_70573.1405_CHU58-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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