MESSAGE
| DATE | 2002-06-10 |
| FROM | Paul Rodriguez
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Symantec Website
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I'm not sure if they've responded to Vinnie, but I just checked the
Symantec site and when you check out a virus, they list Linux and Unix
as OS's (almost always in the "Systems Not Affected:" column of course.
- Paul
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 13:20, Adam Kosmin wrote:
>
> How did Symantec reply to your request?
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:54:13AM -0400, Kevin Milani wrote:
> >
> > I seem to be getting e-mail from people I don't know mentioning the
> > Klez.E worm. So I went to the Symantic (Norton Antivirus) website
to
> > read up on the virus and at the end of their definition they state
the
> > Operating Systems that are affected (all Windows variants) and those
not
> > affected (Macintosh).
> >
> > I was a little bit miffed by the exclusion of Linux from the list of
> > non-affected Operating Systems. So I wrote Symantec a suggestion
that
> > they give us the status of Linux OS as well especially since the
market
> > share must be as big, if not bigger than the Mac OS market share.
Maybe
> > we should start a campaign to the virus companies to get them to
mention
> > that Linux doesn't have the virus issues that Windows/Outlook has.
> >
> > Also, I hate running anti-virus software because it wreaks havoc
with
> > Windows, yet now I can't be sure whether my windows machine has that
> > dumb virus without running some sort of virus scan. It may be time
to
> > convert my last Windows machine to Linux. I have a lot of clients
who
> > require Word documents, but Open Office 1.0 seems to be working very
> > well with regard to Word documents and I always have my Mac OS 9.1
which
> > also works well with Word.
> >
> > So good bye Windows, I won't miss you.
> >
> > Kevin
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