Re: "Bugbear" virus in Linux?

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 07/12/03 

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:30:26 +0200

Ian Linwood <ian@[no-spam]darksideofthemoon.urg.ok> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:10:02 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer"
> <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:

>>No. There are no unix viruses and cannot be.

You aren't finding any "info", so stop posting! You're just posting
references to balderdash propagated by antivirus companies and other
congenitally self-interested parties. Stop doing that or I'll start
posting references to that affair your mother had with a jackass!

> Sorry for multiple posts, just posting as I find more info...

> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130150

  The Jac virus was discovered on Tuesday and quickly dismissed by the
  Linux community for its inability to spread effectively - a common
  occurrence in Linux viruses.

Ha ha. Funny that they call it a "virus" then. As to the nonsense
in the "unix virus writing howto" that that page is all about, the
problem is that it's written by an idiot who thinks that (a) attaching
stuff to an executable is difficult and (b) makes what you are doing
a virus. (a) no, it's peasy, and has been forever, so anyone who writes
such a "howto" is at imbecile level, and (b), no it doesn't, because
you can't do it, since you'd have to be root in order to do so!

Peter

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