linux users: You can start getting scared now.

[john]

Cross Platform Virus Created

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32744

I have said before and I am not changing this statment:
If linux gets as many users as windows, then viruses will be written for it
also.
There is no OS that is immune to the stupidity of some geeks.

--
Kenny - www.ComputerBoom.com

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-Arthur C. Clarke
--

 

[7]

Cross Platform Virus Created

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32744

I have said before and I am not changing this statment:
If linux gets as many users as windows, then viruses will be written for
it also.
There is no OS that is immune to the stupidity of some geeks.

The windoze installer is viral and you should not use
it to repair windoze.
Police need to conduct raids to arrest anyone selling
windoze installers.
It functions similarly to a virus and
deletes other operating systems such as GNU/Linux while
SuSE Linux and Ubuntu picks up other Linux installs and windoze
and does not delete them.

 

[john]

Yes you are correct. If you install windows on a second partition after you
install linux it erases the boot manager of linux. You can boot with the
linux cd and
repair it though in most cases...at least thats what I did with suse or
mandrake, if I can recall... if I am
mistaken correct me.
I usually install linux as a second OS after windows... so I have not done
that many times.
I have used a bootmanager www.osloader.com that is very good and
solves all those problems



--
Kenny - www.ComputerBoom.com

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-Arthur C. Clarke
--

 

[Al Klein]

Cross Platform Virus Created

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32744

It's a bit of fun reading all the misinformation on that site. There
are about 4 posters who actually know what they're talking about.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Cross Platform Virus Created

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32744

I have said before and I am not changing this statment: If linux gets as
many users as windows, then viruses will be written for it also.
There is no OS that is immune to the stupidity of some geeks.

This one isn't a real Linux threat because of what it would take to
actually run the code. He'd have to *want* to run it and intentionally
and take steps to do so. In short: <yawn>

 

[john]

I know more than those 4 people combined, read my reply to seatroller above.

--
Kenny - www.ComputerBoom.com

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-Arthur C. Clarke
--

 

[elaich]

I know more than those 4 people combined, read my reply to seatroller
above.

Of course you do - that's why you came running in here and started this
thread like you had some new, hot news. You fell for it. LMAO.

 

[Mark Warner]

Of course you do - that's why you came running in here and started
this thread like you had some new, hot news. You fell for it. LMAO.

Hey, the dude knows how to use a bootloader. He is like a God to me.
<snicker>

 

[Morten Skarstad]

john skrev:

Cross Platform Virus Created

Oh my. You mean it is actually possible for a piece of code to inject
itself into ELF binaries? I'm shaking!

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32744

Why not post a link directly to the source?
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6059140.html?part=rss&tag=6059140&subj=news

I have said before and I am not changing this statment:
If linux gets as many users as windows, then viruses will be written for it
also.

Viruses _are_ written for Linux or for software commonly running under
Linux. Most of these are worms targetting poorly configured personal
servers. SSH dictionary attacks and unpatched PHP applications are major
attack vectors, but the number of users affected (i.e. running poorly
configured personal servers, not the number of people actually running
Linux) reduces the actual impact.

There is no OS that is immune to the stupidity of some geeks.

No. But there is some difference in how OSes copes with this stupidity,
and even to what extent the OS is encouraging the mentioned stupidity.

 

[Al Klein]

I know more than those 4 people combined, read my reply to seatroller above.

Above? On my screen there was no post above this one in this thread,
john. Seems as if you don't know as much as you think you do.

But I doubt that you know as much as any one of them has forgotten.
You "know" a lot that just isn't so, but that's not knowing.