[KLUG Members] simile.d virus

[Adam Bultman]

Reminds me of a 'virus' that someone on another list sent to the list
about the 'most dangerous linux virus yet'.  I got it from him , infected
my system, and waited. It didn't do anything.  Furthermore, you had to be
root to have it do anthing interesting.

oh, well.  It's interesting that there's a way to have dual-infections
like that, but I would hope people that use linux aren't stupid enough to
blindly run binaries they get in the mail.

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Adam Bultman
adam@glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Tony Gettig wrote:

> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-932447.html
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> It would seem to me that as long as you aren't logging in as a superuser on a regular basis, instead using su or sudo when necessary, the risk is minimal at best. But beyond that, how can these viruses infect a Linux system if they are dependant on vbs and similar pathways? Email? Maliciously coded web pages? File attachments? Communist spies? Evil spirits?
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> I'm not convinced (yet) that viruses are something I need to be concerned with on my Linux computers. Neither servers or workstations.
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