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Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Unix/Linux/Windows worm

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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