On Wednesday 11 July 2007 10:46, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 10-Jul-07, at 6:45 PM, Philip Tellis wrote: > >> can some one tell me what does one require to develop virus for > >> the linux kernel or gnu OS? > > > > One requires a stupid (or at least clueless) user. There are > > millions of them around. > > but no one has answered Krishnakanth's question: given a stupid user > who downloads and runs an executable containing a virus - can this > executable 'infect' other executables and propagate in linux?
Yes it can, otherwise web- and ftp-propagating worms and trojans for Linux would not exist. You don't even need a user, just a bad web programmer or a vulnerable binary. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
