On 4/27/05, Håkan Persson <hakan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Daniel Kirsten wrote:
wget www.ring.as.ro/x/qwe.tgz
This is what Symantec thinks of the content of the file: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.rst.b.html
/Håkan
Well, so much for the "do not wory about viruses in Linux machines" stories...
Number of infections 0-49, number of sites 0-2 - over 3 years. Wow, it's speading like wildfire... help, help!
It has no escalation mechanism, so can only infect ELF files to which the user infected has write permission.
Threat ~0.
-- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
