Virus in Unix

[Susana Dias]

Hi!
I am interested in understand if there are any anti-virus for Unix, although I have never encountered a virus in unix!
Does anybody knows any forums or sites where I can get information about anti-virus for unix?
Thanks

[DCE]

Virus's don't really exist on the unix platform. Look at he following thread for more detailed info

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=34986

Dave

[Ashwani Kashyap]

Sophos makes anti virus softwares for Unix .

http://www.sophos.com/products/es/endpoint-server/sav-non-windows.html

[Marvin Strong]

Most virii do not normally target the Unix platform. However, trojans, and worms may be more of a threat.

a quick google search on Unix virus will probably provide you with lots of links to more information about Unix virii. F-Secure I think provides a Unix anti-virus also.

[HGN]

Hi

I haven't heard any virus but there is always a lot of security concerns which needs to be plugged in .Different vendors havedifferent patches released to fix this.I would always recommend to make use the vendor site to be up-to-date on the security patches atleast.

Rgds

HGN

[Elijah Cuellar]

McAfee Command Line Scanner.

http://www.nai.com/us/products/mcafee/antivirus/desktop/vs_commandline.htm

[Alex Lavrov.]

Well, that's true that there are no viruses, but remember, that Unixes often are file servers for windows computers.

That means, that Windows computers share among them disks from Unix and viruses can be there. They don't represent threat to Unix, but they do to Windows that share these disks among them.

You need to scan these disks and ofcourse you don't wanna run anti-virus on network drives, that's why there are anti-viruses for Unix, so you can localy scan disks that are served to windows computers.

I used to work in the place, where we scanned sambe exported directories evety 2 days, and there were viruses.

Alex.

[Devesh Pant_1]

This is one good thiing about unix. And it will stay that way due to the way things operate in unix.

Most of the replies above have already pointed to other links where you might find relevant info

thanks
DP

[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1]

Hi,

Check this document about 'Can HP-UX be attacked by a virus?' (docID : KBRC00008034) at this url :

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000080065702

Hope this information can help you.

Cheers,
AW

[Ross Minkov]

I have Samba servers that provide file shares to Windows systems. The Windows systems can write files to the Smaba shares, so I use Sophos antivirus software to catch any infected files that came from the Windows systems.

-Ross

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

I can think of a reason.

Whenever any file is created in Unix it doesn't have an execute permission.

For a virus to work it should execute.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi

see also: http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.virus/browse_thread/thread/8d3f87e13f9c6dbb/22401c49f8985d84?lnk=st&q=can+UniX+be+attacked+by+a+virus%3F&rnum=6&hl=en#22401c49f8985d84

http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.security.unix/browse_thread/thread/f266c852876a90f0/9920ef17c6b4d813?lnk=st&q=can+UniX+be+attacked+by+a+virus%3F&rnum=4&hl=en#9920ef17c6b4d813


regards
yogeeraj