Is there virus removal software for Jaunty KDE

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 13 June 2009 10:05:03 pm Martin Laberge wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2009 21:35:58 Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Martin Laberge<mlsoftlaberge at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > Just do not think anymore about virus.
> > >
> > > You are using linux, and do not need to do it.
> >
> > Not *precisely* true. There are rootkits and trojans that can affect
> > Linux, but they're rare and hardly ever found in the wild. If you're
> > using your Linux computer as a mail server, then you definitely need a
> > virus detector like ClamAV to detect and eliminate viruses before they
> > make their way to the mailbox of someone using Windows.
> >
> > Viruses, trojans, and rootkits are very, very rare for Linux, though.
> > In general, if your computer is acting like it has a virus, then the
> > first place to look is your system logs. It's far more likely that
> > there's a misconfiguration somewhere
> >
> > --
> > Richard S. Crawford (rscrawford at mossroot.com)
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>
> In the case of trojans or rootkits, you then need to use
> a rootkit eliminator, (something like chkrootkit)
>
> In the case of a mail server to windows machines,
> just let the windows clients suffer for their sins
> if THEY did'nt installed something to take care
> of THEIR problem.
>
>
>
> --
> Martin Laberge
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> *** 30 Years of Unix Admin, and still learning... ***
I have heard the term mail server many times over the past year or so.  So 
many who use the list talk of them, but I am just one person and use Kmail 
mostly.  I installed and tried Thunderbird on the offended computer, but it 
started reacting the same way and stopped when it got to a failed connection 
between computer and ISP too.

Perhaps I am a mail server and don't know it.  I contact family, a few friends 
and the List with emails, that is all.  I don't have any commercial activity 
or company activity taking place ever.  I am retired.  I do have some 
important data on the offended box, though, and it is in two places.  On a 
partition called /home/steven/backup and on the /home partition.  But they 
obviously have the virus too, because after formatting and reinstalling, I 
still retained the same problems.  I don't know if you know the progression of 
the virus, but it takes a lot of words to describe, so tell me if you want me 
to relate them again.

Steven
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