To me it looks like an hoax and an attempt to install Trojan.

The author has not given how the virus will spread?

As simple file size check would detect the virus, why run binaries from the
author?

The author signs as
>Regards,
>        - anonymous
>

Should we believe him?

I think this is an hoax, and do not run any binary to detect the so called
virus.

Raju, I wish you should have checked the authenticity before posting such
stuff, which might create unnecessary panic among the lister.

Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web site - http://betacomp.com



From: Raju Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: [LIH] (fwd) Remote Shell Trojan: Threat, Origin and the Solution


>[Linux RST virus detector, cleaner and immuniser.
>
>WARNING: I haven't checked the code thoroughly enough to positively
>state that it's not a trojan itself.  Use at your own risk.
>
>The actual binary file is put up for download at:
>
>        http://kandalaya.org/software/kill_rst.tgz
>
>-- Raju]
>
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>Subject: Remote Shell Trojan: Threat, Origin and the Solution
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>Overview:
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>At the 5th of September Qualys released a Security Warning regarding a
Linux
>based virus. This virus was called  the "Remote Shell Trojan" (RST) and it
>attacks Linux ELF binaries. It has replicating abilities: when run it will
>infect all binaries in /bin and the current working directory. Besides that
>it also spawns a process listening on UDP port 5503. When a properly
crafted
>packet is received by this process it will connect back with a system
shell.
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>Danger:
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