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Old 17th December 2010
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Originally Posted by jackthechemist View Post
OfficeScan said it was infectious!
No virus identification is perfect. False positives can be found in most AV products.
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How does BSD handle such items? My concern is that one of the aforementioned devices could have something harmful or infectious, that may auto-execute when I connect it even...
You are making the assumption that an executable from the Windows world can run on OpenBSD. Both operating systems do not require the same signature of startup code placed at the beginning of binaries, so the chances of successfully running another operating system's binaries on OpenBSD is most likely impossible unless some form of emulation has been configured. At one time when OpenBSD's ports tree didn't contain common & popular applications, emulation was important, but now that many popular applications are natively available, emulation is much less used and/or maintained. In fact, a number of older emulation layers have been removed in -current.

You may want to look into what is required for emulation. Starting with reading the compat_linux(8) or compat_freebsd(8) manpages is a good start.

If you concerned about viruses (& most only target Windows...), you might want to look at Clam AV in packages:

http://openports.se/security/clamav
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