Re: How to easily infect any linux box...especially up-yr-fucking-butt-too...LOL!

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"Peter Foldes" <okf22@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Also here and many numerous articles on the NET about how Linux is
also very easily inflexible
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3307459975.html

Inflexible ?

If you read the article, the entire article, yes, you seem to be making a
point.

You read things like this....

"At Central Command we are concerned over all malicious and potentially
malicious programs and they do not need root access to cause damage. All
that is need is write permission within the current users access rights
even if it is just to the users /home directory. If a malicious program
can execute and delete or infect anything within the contents of the
current users /home directory it is dangerous enough."

......or.......

"We are seeing a growing interest by virus writers and virus writing
groups to produce more Linux-based viruses, trojans and worms. While the
relative number of Linux-based viruses is still small the initiative is
there."

......and........

" Not too long ago Central Command's, Emergency Virus Response Team
discovered the first cross compatible Windows/Linux virus named
W32/Winux."

Then it starts talking about virus problems when hosting/serving Windows
based files or data. (And I agree, *this* could be a valid threat for
other Windows PCs using these resources.)

All that *could* sound pretty scary.

But then you look and see that that article was written in 2003 and over
six years old. IIRC, there's still no real virii in the wild for
Linux..........ones that had been released and spread. All of these
'known' virii are 'proof of concept' virii, but have never done any
damage anywhere.

At the time fo the article, there was around 60,000 known Windows virii.
Is it like 400K now ?

So either there hasn't really been much interest as the article claims,
or the virus writers haven't tried, or just can't do it.





(**DISCLAIMER** I'm not saying that there will never be any Linux virii,
nor that there zero vulnerabilities in Linux, or anything, I'm just
making face-value conclusions based on face-value information. I am also
not saying Linux is a better OS than Windows.)




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