Re: Which Red Hat version?

From: Jonathan Baker-Bates (jonathan_baker-bates_at_oyster.REMOVE.com)
Date: 05/07/04 

Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 15:03:34 +0100

"Steve Schreiber" <sschreibATTmagmaDOTTca> wrote in message
news:Yv6dnW3hmoyvtwfd4p2dnA@magma.ca...
<snip>
> unlikely.). From what I have read about all the Windows world
> virus'/exploits, I am in the camp that believes that it would never get
> that bad when (not 'if) Linux has an equal share of numbers.

I'm not so sure. Thinking back to things like ExploreZip and other Windows
executables-in-a-zip worms, they spread almost as fast as "automatically"
executing Outlook-hole-exploiters. People duly downloaded, unzipped, and ran
the contents.

So, if they were running Linux, for example, and received a .tar file
containing a malicious shell script, they'd probably just do the same: untar
and execute - and tar would obediently honour the x-bit. The code could then
do all it's nasty work in the now familar way (SSH server on port 5656 or
whatever...).

So is it really that different with *NIX?

JJ

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