On 10/11/2011 11:48 PM, Neil wrote:
They're not very common. The source code is generally old and deprecated.
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
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The page you linked to is quite true, you can't fool someone in to
compiling a computer virus unless they want it.
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Linux could get infected by installing a Trojan: malicious .deb .rpm
etc, but one would have to download from an untrusted source.
The Linux community makes it too difficult for (most) Virus writers to
bother with it. That is one of the things that is really great about
open source.
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