“So till now, if you were thinking that your linux distro is immune to virus, its time to think again.”
Studies have proven that linux also can be affected by virus although it’s somewhat rare.So better be prepared with the antivirus.
For The Antiviruses Application, there’s some popular antivirus such as the open source Clam AV and the commercial freeware Avast! and AVG are available for Linux. For Clam AV , you download it at the repositories if you’re using ubuntu, but Avast! and AVG must downloaded from the antivirus site.
This is a list of a known viruses or trojans at Linux Currently:
Trojans
* Kaiten – Linux.Backdoor.Kaiten trojan horse
* Rexob – Linux.Backdoor.Rexob trojan
Viruses
* Alaeda – Virus.Linux.Alaeda
* Bad Bunny – Perl.Badbunny
* Binom – Linux/Binom
* Bliss
* Brundle[9]
* Bukowski[10]
* Diesel – Virus.Linux.Diesel.962
* Kagob a – Virus.Linux.Kagob.a
* Kagob b – Virus.Linux.Kagob.b
* MetaPHOR (also known as Simile)
* Nuxbee – Virus.Linux.Nuxbee.1403
* OSF.8759
* Podloso – Linux.Podloso (The iPod virus)
* Rike – Virus.Linux.Rike.1627
* RST – Virus.Linux.RST.a
* Satyr – Virus.Linux.Satyr.a
* Staog
* Vit – Virus.Linux.Vit.4096
* Winter – Virus.Linux.Winter.341
* Winux (also known as Lindose and PEElf
* ZipWorm – Virus.Linux.ZipWorm
Worms
* Adm – Net-Worm.Linux.Adm
* Adore
* Cheese – Net-Worm.Linux.Cheese
* Devnull
* Kork
* Linux/Lion (also known as Ramen)
* Mighty – Net-Worm.Linux.Mighty
* Millen – Linux.Millen.Worm
* Slapper
* SSH Bruteforce
