Subject: RE: virusses for bsd?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: None <douglas+list@fang.demon.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/12/1999 04:37:01
On 11-Nov-99 Reinoud Koornstra wrote:
> I read that there will be virus scanners for the bsd's?
> Now why does netbsd need a virus scanner?
> Can anyone give a good reason? I dont remember virusses for netbsd.
> Secondly...... even if there were virusses, what could they do....
> execute
> them selves? I dont believe they can unless we activate them and stil
> they
> would walk into the fact that just a user is executing them.
> So i dont understand this developement.


Maybe cross platform scanners for servers? I know that Aminet has a scanner
for Amiga viruses that runs on unix.

-- 
Douglas