Message-ID: <ezy9GCAqz7RzEwtU@phaedsys.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:10:34 +0100
To: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Chris Hills <chris AT phaedsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: antivirus measures
In-Reply-To: <199704061411.AA13224@mail.crl.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0

In message <199704061411 DOT AA13224 AT mail DOT crl DOT com>, Weiqi Gao
<weiqigao AT crl DOT com> writes
>JP Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net> wrote:
>
>>>On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:
>
>>>>And aren't there any Linux viruses?
>
>>>Of course there aren't.  Viruses don't survive in UNIX systems
>>[...]
The Internet worm is a virus and at the time most of the 'net was
Unix...

A virus can work on Unix as well as DOS, Windows, OS2 etc etc. It is
easier for a virus to survive in a large Unix system than single user
systems. this is because you know when your machine slows down but in a
multi users system you can never be sure if the prro perfirnance etc is
not due to somthing else on the system. 

It does depend on what you define as a virus. I have a friend (just the
one :-) who assures me that Windows95 is a virus in it'self!

Regards
        Chris


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