Re: New Linux Trojan

From: Brett Glass (brettat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 09:03:26 PDT

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    If what Qualys says is true, this is a Trojan horse/virus/worm. However, 
    I'd hardly believe that such a thing could propagate very far or very 
    well, given that the attachment would have to be opened -- intentionally 
    -- by a user with root privilege to infect the system. And Linux users 
    tend to be much more suspicious of binary attachments than Windows users. 
    Is this a real threat or a PR stunt?
    
    --Brett Glass
    
    
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