Has someone contacted abcnews and told them not to be so hasty? If they are
proliferating BS, they ought to be made aware of it. The fact that
"McAfee.com Corp., said it had not seen the virus and could not confirm
reports of W32.Winux" should be a bit of a tipoff.
Regards,
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Zygmont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:49 PM
> To: Jerry Winegarden
> Cc: Redhat-List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: An interesting virus story...
>
>
> how do you know if they meant embedded assembly? you can
> make a C program
> and embed some assembly to infect an ELF executable. You
> would have to
> be root however.
>
> How about win NT viruses, are there any of those out there?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html
> > >
> > > This is an interesting article about a new, and I think
> first, virus that
> > > affects Linux. This form is nondestructive, but it only
> takes a script
> > > kiddie to change all of that. This is the first I am
> hearing of it. Does
> > > anyone here know any more about the virus?
> > >
> > > Paul Anderson
> >
> > Paul, if you believed this even a little bit, you've been HAD!
> >
> > Whoever put up that story and somehow passed word of it is
> ROTFLMAO right
> > now!
> >
> > The story included just enough technical sounding terms to
> make it appear
> > as authentic, but if you know ANYTHING about those terms, you would
> > immediately see through it - maybe even chuckle yourself
> that someone
> > might believe this!
> >
> > The key to making people believe this is claiming that it
> was written in
> > "assembly language", as if assembly language was uniform
> for any operating
> > system that might run on an Intel I386 PC. Although
> "assembly language"
> > under MS Win or DOS or whatever and "assembly language"
> under Linux talk
> > to the same hardware/firmware, that is where things stop
> being "the same".
> > No way it could be.
> >
> > Nice story about "Group 29A" and "Benny"...
> > Heh, this company appears to be a net security company, so they must
> > have access to such info...
> >
> > I don't know. Are we supposed to trust such a company with
> OUR systems
> > for security? Sure, they've gotten us to LOOK at their web
> page, but do
> > you REALLY think anyone will go back and look after their hoax is so
> > easily exposed?
> >
> > I don't know.... clowns to the left of me, bozos to the
> right... :-(
> >
> >
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