[NMLUG] Virus susceptibility?

[mike at garfias.org (Mike Garfias)]

We'd scan the tarballs before product release just to be sure that they were
virus free.  If we'd ever shipped an infected file, we would have lost our
credibility.  Simply saying "It can't happen" wasn't good enough.

Think of it as our due diligence.

Gary Sandine spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> So in the Network Associates example, it was scanning Unix tarballs for
> Windows viruses?  Sorry, just trying to understand (because I'm asked
> about this kind of stuff quite a bit and have never heard of this
> scenario)....