[KLUG Members] Re: simile.d virus

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:34, Adam Bultman wrote:
> 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.

That's the difference between UNIX and Windows.  UNIX applications run
fine as regular users but most Windows applications require you to have
full system access (i.e. Administrator privileges).

Still, it doesn't hurt to investigate virus scanners for Linux.  A
number of them are free.  You'd figure IBM would release one -- they
used to be big into anti-virus.

-- Bryan

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