[plug] simple.d

[Craig Foster]

Could you imagine the furore that would develop if Symantec disregarded
Linux virii? Beside's I know plenty of people who upload files to their
linux machine using Samba. The weakest link in this chain still seems to
be the Wintel users...

Craig F.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sol Hanna [mailto:sol at terminus.net.au]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:58 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] simple.d
>
>
> Is anyone taking this the hype over this seriously? I've
> seen numerous articles all based on the Symantec warning as
> if it's big
> news. But no one has reported an infection. No one using
> Linux at least. It's just theoretically possible.
> I checked to see if I had ELF installed (along with the
> kitchen sink) and I don't so I guess that makes me (and I
> assume most other
> Linux users) safe.
> It seems to me that Symantec has too much to lose from
> people using free, safe software, and perhaps that's why
> there's so much fuss.
> Smells like M$ conspiracy to me.
>
> regards,
>
> sol
>
>
>
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