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Alright, I'm calm now. The use of the term smoothwall to mean any firewall box is a new one to me. Could be.
Regardless, your statement that a Linux firewall was infected with a virus is wrong. The only Linux virus outside the lab was one that infected Red Hat (not sure which iteration). That virus barely made it out of the lab and was more proof of concept than anything. That your Linux firewall could have been cracked is entirely possible, that there was a virus infection is not.
It is likely that you don't know the difference between being cracked and being infected with a virus. There are plenty of people these days saying that Linux will get viruses just like MSWindows. Those people don't know what they are talking about. Due to an entirely different architecture, hundreds of distros and numerous iterations of each distro Linux will never provide the base for viruses that MSWindows does.
Could one box be infected with a virus once it was compromised? I guess so. If that were happening I am sure I would have read about it by now, yet I have not. Maybe your the leading edge. Then again, maybe your full of shit like I said.
Only someone totally ignorant could talk about virus infected Linux machines. That may not be the case forever but for now it is.
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Posted by: WarPengi on March 02, 2006 03:03 AMAlright, I'm calm now. The use of the term smoothwall to mean any firewall box is a new one to me. Could be.
Regardless, your statement that a Linux firewall was infected with a virus is wrong. The only Linux virus outside the lab was one that infected Red Hat (not sure which iteration). That virus barely made it out of the lab and was more proof of concept than anything. That your Linux firewall could have been cracked is entirely possible, that there was a virus infection is not.
It is likely that you don't know the difference between being cracked and being infected with a virus. There are plenty of people these days saying that Linux will get viruses just like MSWindows. Those people don't know what they are talking about. Due to an entirely different architecture, hundreds of distros and numerous iterations of each distro Linux will never provide the base for viruses that MSWindows does.
Could one box be infected with a virus once it was compromised? I guess so. If that were happening I am sure I would have read about it by now, yet I have not. Maybe your the leading edge. Then again, maybe your full of shit like I said.
Only someone totally ignorant could talk about virus infected Linux machines. That may not be the case forever but for now it is.
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