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тАО09-17-2001 06:13 AM
тАО09-17-2001 06:13 AM
Thanks,
Mike
Solved! Go to Solution.
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тАО09-17-2001 06:14 AM
тАО09-17-2001 06:14 AM
Re: Do viruses affect HP-UX
I will let others comment on their virus experiences, we've been clean.
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тАО09-17-2001 06:16 AM
тАО09-17-2001 06:16 AM
Re: Do viruses affect HP-UX
Viruses written for PC's will no affect HP-UX machines.
I don't know any virus in HP-UX and I don't know any antivirus for HP-UX also.
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тАО09-17-2001 06:26 AM
тАО09-17-2001 06:26 AM
SolutionIt also goes on to list all the types of files it checks for viruses. It seems that certainly are viruses for HP-UX as well as other UNIX, but they probably aren't very common in the wild.
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VirusScan for UNIX v4.7 software
runs with these UNIX operating systems:
* Hewlett-Packard HP-UX v10.20 and later
* IBM AIX v4.2.1 and later
* Linux v2.x kernels
* Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) OpenServer
Release 5
* Sun Microsystems Solaris for SPARC
architecture, v2.5.1 and later
* FreeBSD v3.2
NOTE: The current version of the UNIX
operating system that you require
must be installed and running
correctly before you install the
VirusScan for UNIX software.
* At least 4MB RAM of free hard disk space
* To install the VirusScan for UNIX
software and perform an on-demand
scan operation of your file system,
McAfee recommends that you have root
account permissions.
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тАО09-17-2001 07:58 AM
тАО09-17-2001 07:58 AM
Re: Do viruses affect HP-UX
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тАО09-17-2001 11:32 AM
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Re: Do viruses affect HP-UX
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тАО09-17-2001 10:12 PM
тАО09-17-2001 10:12 PM
Re: Do viruses affect HP-UX
I don?t know if McAffe scans for Unix-viruses. But look at www.sophos.com . There you can download a trial version of virusscanner for unix viruses. The man page mentions "PC-Files
on Unix-Hosts" but while a phone call they told me that the scanner scans for unix-viruses too.
Lothar
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тАО09-17-2001 10:53 PM
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Re: Do viruses affect HP-UX
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тАО09-25-2001 11:19 AM
тАО09-25-2001 11:19 AM
Re: Do viruses affect HP-UX
Until recently, the word has been that viruses are developed to run on the platforms that can propagate them rapidly, for the purposes of inflicting damage on those platforms. Most statements have been phrased with words to the effect "virus programs are not adapted to exploit the typical systems and application architectures found on UNIX systems", something like that.
In other words, to paraphrase an anti-terrorist authority I heard on CNN this AM, a biological exploit is unlikely to be perpetrated waterborne when an airborne exploit is hundreds of times more efficent. So the UNIX server is at best like water, but the PC platform is like air.
I haven't looked into UNIX anti-virus software, but the purpose of this is probably to scan for the presence of all known virus signatures and prevent them from being stored and/or forwarded, rather than to prevent execution. It would be very environment-specific.