On Saturday 19 Jul 2008, Mehul Ved wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is pretty much standard now. When you pop in the drive > > Gnome/KDE pop up file managers with the drive mount on > > /media/<something>. > > I believe XFCE does it too. And for other window managers, you could > use ivman to achieve the same. Yes, and so does KDE. ... snip ... > manager. I believe there was an autorun.inf which copied a whole > > bunch of <directory>.exe in my home directory. It was like Whoa! > > The point is that some of the virii have started recognizing a > > Linux desktop and use Linux utils to install themselves. > > Fortunately, they were windows exe and I removed them. > > Was the desktop running wine? There's this thread going on, on > ubuntuforums, where people have managed to get windows virus to work > upto variable extents using wine. No wine. But the fact that it was able to create dirs and install some .exe files is scary. It could have well installed some other script that could have removed dirs/files in my home dir. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
