Re: Antivirus Programs for Openbsd

[J Moore <jaymo@cullmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:25:40AM -0500, the unit calling itself Dave Feustel wrote:
> I've seen recent postings on this list about antivirus programs for Openbsd.
> Do these programs detect viruses that can actually infect Openbsd
> or just viruses that won't affect Openbsd but can be passed on to infect 
> other (windows) operating systems?

They (in general) detect whatever is in their "virus definition" file. 
If there were an OpenBSD virus, and it was characterized in the virus 
definition file, then it would be detected. Offhand, I'm not aware of 
any virii (?) that OpenBSD is vulnerable to so primarily the value of 
scanning on OpenBSD is to help protect weaker OS's.

Jay