[Gllug] Badtrans.b worm

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:47:54AM +0000, Colin Coles wrote:
> > I was under the impression that Linux was relatively unaffected by such
> > things (possibly due to anti-Microsoft sentiment)?
> 
> Uninfected, yes, unaffected, no.

To elaborate, Linux can not be infected by such viruses but if you run your
office's mail server on Linux, and your workstations on ms-windows, your
management will expect you to take measures not to allow infected mail to be
recieved by the workstations.  Hence, if you are a system administrator, you
will generally still need to deal with virus-removing software, even if the
Linux boxen themselves are not suseptible.

Pete

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