full-disclosure - Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

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From: dfs at roaringpenguin.com (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help
 the cause

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Exibar wrote:

>  Will any of these do?  Will you still think you don't need AV on Linux now?
> here's a partial list..... don't choke too hard now!

Those are all proof-of-concept.  I'm unaware of a single production
Linux machine anywhere in the world succumbing to one of them.  Perhaps
you can provide evidence to the contrary?

Furthermore, most of them are not self-propagating, but require active
cooperation from the recipient.

I do not need nor use AV on Linux.

Regards,

David.