On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 15:17:53 -0500
Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> There is a linux trojan that is out, in case anyone has not heard. 
>  http://www.qualys.com/alert/remoteshell.pdf is the location of the pdf 
> detailing the trojan.

Yeah...that is pretty bad.  I mean, if some random person you dont know
sends you an email, and you...just accidentally...save it to a file,
decompress it, change the permissions to make it executable,  re-login
as root, and run the thing (assuming there's no library symbol conflicts)
....well you could just be in a world of hurt.

:)

Mark Orr
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