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Hmmm... My Kaspersky Anti-virus Personal detects all kinds of spyware and crap out there. Spybot and Outpost firewall handle the rest of them.

http://www.avp.ch/

Any proof or facts to point this out, or is this just another one of your false blanket statements?

Now, anyone semi-profficient in visual basic can write a very destructive virus.

Yet another blanket statement with no proof or backup.

In any of your posts I have yet to see any facts, the only fact that you have presented is that you don't have any resources or any backup/proof for anything you say.

Say hi to Tanya for me.

>That's a truly awful example, because the same lock-breaking techniques that work on the $9.99 lock would work on the cheaper, less frequently deployed, dollar store lock too.

Having been the proud owner of said $1 lock, I can assure you, that while it is vulnerable to the same maladies of a $9.99 lock, it is also vulnerable to the old "PULL IT OFF! REALLY HARD YOU WUSSY!" technique. :-) [Note to trolls: License to troll is in effect]

>An exploit in the wild that's compromised thousands of Windows machines won't do a thing on the Mac

Wrong, sorry. Although, it wasn't easy to find that example. There's a lot more Java ones, though. :-) That and I'll give you the "in the wild" exception.

>In the security environment we're in, where people are expecting commodity operating systems and attacking every system in sight just in case it is one, I think it's safe to say that security through obscurity is a lot better than no security at all.

Maybe, but a properly secured, updated, windows machine isn't going to get spywared that easily, either. And most users won't need to relearn their skills, which is a side bonus.

Never, huh?

Basically, the last time that a major non-Windows worm threatened the stability of internet was back when the majority of computers on the Internet weren't running Windows. There have been numerous worms since then for UNIX & Linux, but their market penetration has been low enough not to seriously hurt the whole internet. This is not as good of a thing as you indicate.

AVP caught and blocked it. This is with the Apr 8 2002 database.

How about the IBM christmas worm from 1987?
Not quite literally email, but it spread by reading addresses from an address book.

This has to be the most poorly researched article I've ever seen. What is this? "I heard Eddie say that he'd give Sophos a bucket load of money if they could infect his Linux box" becomes news? For a start, there are already Unix viruses and they have been reported in the wild. What is all this stuff about "hackers" and "exploits" about? Are we talking about worms or viruses or what? Where is the actual written declaration of the challenge? Who is the third party holding the cash in escrow? How is the challenge supposed to work? Surely Ed isn't suggesting that he will track down and award the author of any virus that ends up on his machine. Surely Ed isn't trying to incite people to write actual viruses and release them into the wild. I have emailed netproject.com, maybe the original "reporter" should have done this, it's called basic research. BTW - I heard Bill Gates said he'd give $1,000,000 to anyone who can sneak a woopie cushion onto his chair before he sits down on monday, should I look for the Slashdot article?

Then again, now that I think about it I can't think of a major anti-virus application for Linux. Can anyone suggest one?

I've come across AVP for Linux. Didn't really
test it yet, but it exists...

http://www.avp.ch/E/dlinux.htm

he is the black baron, or chris pyle. responsible for SMEG.

• the sad tale of chris pile's ...
• avp's smeg description
• 40hex 14, including smeg disassembly