[plug] viruses.?

[W.Kenworthy]

There have also been reports of windows virii infecting linux machines
via wine - I think it was trojan listening on a network port!

Dont assume that just because it says "linux" on a bootup screen you are
immune ...

BillK
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:10 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:38 +0800, James Elliott wrote:
> > One of the advantages of Linux is that Windows viruses cannot get into our 
> > systems.
> 
> The most common malware, worms that target MS Windows, can't attack
> Linux but can still get on a Linux system if the worm's file(s) are
> copied there, say with a backup. Similarly, Windows worms and viruses
> can spread from Windows machine to Windows machine via files stored on a
> Linux file server.
>