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

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From: mailinglists at wjnconsulting.com (Wes Noonan)
Subject: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

> Are you aware of any A/V desktop software for Linux?  I'm not.  So even
> if I wanted to run A/V on our desktops, I couldn't.

Network Associates makes one. VirusScan for Unix. Been out for a while now,
at least a couple of years. There are others as well. Google "virus
protection software for linux".

> A/V software will do exactly nothing to protect against worms that
> exploit buffer overflows in running services.

This is not quite correct. Nachia and Blaster, as well as Code Red and its
variants are all detectable and preventable with virus protection. While
they may not stop the worm on the network, they can and do stop systems from
becoming infected and propagating the worm.

Wes Noonan
mailinglists@...consulting.com
http://www.wjnconsulting.com