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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers virus detection Post 32247 by Vishnu on Wednesday 20th of November 2002 09:14:27 PM
Old 11-20-2002
whoever said that...

http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/products/vi...russcan-cl.asp

viruses per se, don't really apply to unix (there are trojan horses, etc, that can do a great deal of damage though).

here is some snippet from a pdf found on the above site:

" The UNIX operating system is a secure environment, relatively unaffected by computer viruses. The DOS and Windows environment, however, is different. DOS computers have no security and are very susceptible to virus infections. Because DOS system viruses don't affect UNIX systems, you might ask: “Why
should I be concerned?”

One reason for concern is that DOS- and Windows-based computers are rapidly appearing on the Internet-and most of these computers use the Internet for file transfer. A UNIX server might still harbor DOS system viruses and, while not itself affected, can pass them on to numerous DOS- and Windows-based clients. Rather than trying to block viruses at each DOS- and Windows-based computer connected to a UNIX system, you can install the VirusScan for UNIX software and use it as an efficient centralized solution. "

Cheers!
Vishnu.
 

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MAILGRAPH(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      MAILGRAPH(8)

NAME
mailgraph - daemon which produces graphs of SMTP traffic SYNOPSIS
mailgraph [ options ] DESCRIPTION
mailgraph is a daemon which produces mail statistics RRDtool for Postfix and Sendmail. This stats are stored for generating daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs of sent/received/rejected and bounced/viruses/spam mails. OPTIONS
-h, --help Display help and exit. -v, --verbose Be verbose about what you do. -V, --version Output version information and exit. -c, --cat Cause the logfile to be only read and not monitored. -l, --logfile file Monitor logfile file instead of /var/log/syslog. -t, --logtype type Set logfile's type (default: syslog). -y, --year Start year of the log file (default: current year). --host=HOST Use only entries for HOST (regexp) in syslog. -d, --daemon Start in the background --daemon-pid=FILE Write PID to FILE instead of /var/run/mailgraph.pid. --daemon-rrd=DIR Write RRDs to DIR instead of /var/lib/mailgraph/. --daemon-log=FILE Write verbose-log to FILE instead of /var/log/mailgraph.log. --ignore-localhost Ignore mail to/from localhost (used for virus scanner). --ignore-host=HOST Ignore mail to/from HOST (used for virus scanner). --no-mail-rrd Do not update the mail rrd. --no-virus-rrd Do not update the virus rrd. --no-greylist-rrd Do not update the greylist rrd. --rrd-name=NAME Use NAME.rrd, NAME_virus.rrd and NAME_greylist.rrd for the rrd files. --rbl-is-spam Count rbl rejects as spam. --virbl-is-virus Count virbl rejects as viruses. SEE ALSO
rrdtool(1), RRDs(3pm) AUTHOR
David Schweikert <dws@ee.ethz.ch> MAILGRAPH(8)
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