On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:22:07PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > it also infects files in /bin as stated by symantic and as stated by > Daniel. Thus it has some method of getting root privileges. Nah, it just *tries* to infect files in /bin, and does if it happens to have write privileges. Therefore: don't run as root, and only run trusted programs with root privileges. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
