On 25/07/00 10:20 +0530, Mukund Deshmukh spewed into the LI bitstream:
> >Deleting windows will solve both space and virus problems (you don't
> >have virii on linux - except for one or two rare ones)
> >
>
> Can you tell what are these one or two rare virus on linux?
There are some generic unix virii - and Arun posted a python script
that can do damage if someone is idiotic enough to run netscape as
root, with python set to autoexecute.
No OS is virus free - linux just makes it foolproof (but not idiot
proof) - I saw at least two shell scripts to gain root access being
sent around to ISP tech support teams by script kiddies trying to gain
root. It'd root the box and add the guy's ssh key to the server.
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