Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 19:31:20 05/11/00
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On May 11, 2000 at 22:01:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 11, 2000 at 18:16:52, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>Some time ago we had a discussion about possibility of Unix warms. Here is the >>interesting web site describing such a beast -- actually, even more dangerous >>one, as it's portable: http://lcamtuf.na.export.pl/worm.txt >> >>Eugene > > >Lot of hokum. I'll be happy to give them an IP address and let 'em try to >infect my linux box. > >Their hacks assume they have already broken into a system. that is _not_ >a given, when security is enforced (MD5 passwords, etc.)... I believe they will not infect *your* system (none of my 5 Windows machines was infected, too). But such program would infect *a lot* of Unix/Linux boxes. And as such boxes become more and more popular among non-technical people situation would worsen. Eugene
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