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Operating Systems HP-UX virus in unix/linux ...? Post 81407 by sekar sundaram on Friday 19th of August 2005 09:30:14 AM
Old 08-19-2005
virus in unix/linux ...?

hi,

my questions are:
1). Is it possible to write virus programs on unix or linux environments?
2).if no why? technical answers....
3).is it right? "It is not possible to write virus programs in open source environments"


inventsekar
 

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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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