Umm, couldn't you just open another xterm (Alt + f3 or something) and kill
the script process?
Brian
"Hey Pat, I'd like to buy a clue, err, I mean a vowel."
>Hi,
>
>not to give anyone any idea but a very simple destructive script can be
>constructed with virus qualities.
>
>1) Append a "at" command to a virus script to user's startup script.
>
>2)The virus script would list all the processes running and extract those
>PIDs with the current user name.
>
>3) Redirect those PIDs to a iterative kill loop.
>
>4) Wola...someone experiences self terminating xterms/processes
>randomly......
>
>However, unless it u get conned into running the first scriptwhen u're at
>root, your're pretty safe. But then again, a lot of software is downloaded
>from ftp servers and installed by root. So it can a serious problem in the
>future.
>
>Lionel
>
>> Exactly that is why you can't be infected by a Winblows virus on a Mac
>> platform and vice versa. It also is the same reason you can't run
>Winbloze
>> apps in Linux without an emulator. BTW, haven't seen too many viruses
for
>> Linux lately and how many are there for Winblows, umm ... around 50,000?
>>
>>
>> *************************************
>> Original message from: Dan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Toby Sheets wrote:
>> >
>> >> Is Linux susceptible to the same virii that Windoze is?
>> >
>> >No, because viruses are written for a particular processor/OS platform,
>> >and none of the calls upon which a DOS/windows virus would rely are
>> >present in Linux. Of course, if you're running WINE or VMWare, that's
>> >another story...
>> >
>> >--
>> >Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste
good
>> >with ketchup.
>
