Neither. I am talking about the next generation infection which installs a VM under your OS. There has been talk of this for a while, but so far as I know none yet exists. But installing in the MBR is a critical element of any such VM infection. -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ A bug is a test case you haven't written yet. --- Mark Pilgrim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy J. Wiley" <[email protected]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:47:59 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Bot infection stored in MBR Vulnerable to what? This particular infection or infections in general? On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM, < [email protected] > wrote: This seems like a small step away from booting into a virtual machine. At that point all OSs are vulnerable, not just Windoze. -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. ---unknown source ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr O" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] , "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" < [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:46:53 AM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Bot infection stored in MBR Nothing new here. Move along. --- On Thu, 6/30/11, Allen Brown < [email protected] > wrote: > From: Allen Brown < [email protected] > > Subject: [Eug-lug] Bot infection stored in MBR > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" < [email protected] > > Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 10:34 AM > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13973805 > -- > Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ > Is there another word for synonym? --- > George Carlin _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
