Recently I have seen more MBR infections. Probably more so in the last few months than the last several years. Not common although I saw a security comment about a newer botnet totaling over 4 million PCs.
While Linux is prone to rootkits I've heard very little about MBR infections on Linux. I have however seen Firefox completely plagued on a Linux box. Again that was the point and click end user type screwup though. --- On Thu, 6/30/11, abr...@peak.org <abr...@peak.org> wrote: > From: abr...@peak.org <abr...@peak.org> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Bot infection stored in MBR > My impression of Mr O's response was that the MBR attack > was > irrelevant to us. (That impression may have been > incorrect.) > I was merely saying that with VM malware loaded from the > MBR *any* > and all OSs could be hosts. It really wouldn't matter > what OS > was running above the VM. We're not there yet. > But we're close. > > How can we ensure we don't get infected with a VM loaded > from MBR? > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
