Question...has there been an OS/2 virus/worm/anything???

Post #22,122 by bepatient 12/20/01 4:26:28 PM Reply	Question...has there been an OS/2 virus/worm/anything??? You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #22,147 by nking 12/20/01 6:35:43 PM Reply	OS/2? What about Plan9? OS/2 does have antivirus software for it, but I think there are more DOS/Windows viruses than there are OS/2 viruses. Does Plan9 have any viruses, anyone even bother? ;) Could Plan9 be Crackproof because crackers don't want to learn it or bother to write a script to break it? "Before Christmas it is 'Ho ho ho', after Christmas it is 'Owe owe owe'" - Santa Norm
Post #22,168 by tonytib 12/20/01 11:08:52 PM Reply	Well, you can find out for yourself at [link\|http://www.vitanuova.com/plan9/main.html\|Vita Nuova] I'd love to have time play with their stuff, but it doesn't (yet) match what I do at work or the side stuff I'm working on (which is DSP or microcontroller based). Tony
Post #22,235 by nking 12/21/01 12:56:27 PM Reply	I like their mascot "It is just a bunny rabbit.... aaarrrgghhh!" "I told ya, it'll bite yer head off!" :) "Before Christmas it is 'Ho ho ho', after Christmas it is 'Owe owe owe'" - Santa Norm
Post #22,174 by Andrew Grygus 12/20/01 11:27:12 PM Reply	I heard there were one or two . . . . but they never spread in the wild. The anti-viruses for OS/2 pretty much look for DOS / Windows 3.1 viruses, since OS/2 can run such programs, but they don't have any chance of infecting OS/2 itself, and are denied access to floppy boot sectors, but might be able to get at the hard disk boot sector and can infect or delete other files and programs. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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