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The JargonFile starts: ;: (By analogy with biological viruses, via SF) A cracker program that searches out other programs and "infects" them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses. When these programs are executed, the embedded virus is executed too, thus propagating the "infection". This normally happens invisibly to the user. These days, virus has come to mean any trojan horse, script or other 'nasty' program that has the ability to self replicate, and cause problems. Thankfully, due to the security model of [Unix] and clones and the fact that MicrosoftWindows is (a) so much easier to target (b) running on 100x as many machines as [Linux], there aren't many Linux viruses out there. One thing Linux is good at though, is stopping and dealing with Windows viruses. You can do what you like with them with almost no danger of infection unless a windows emulator such as WineIsNotanEmulator is being run. [ClamAV] is a [Free] Anti-Virus program for Linux. See MailScannerNotes for information about using Linux to protect your Windows clients from email viruses.
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