On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Aditya Laghate wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > > When I inserted his USB pen drive on my Ubuntu > > 8.04.1 I noticed a lot of <dir>.exe files created on my hard disk. > > Obviously, the pen drive was infected but worse yet the virus was > > able to create the files on my system. Luckily the damage was > > contained since the .exe files could not run on my system. I > > disabled "auto run" in Nautilus. Ease of use has it's down side. > > This is funny!! I have till date (in the last 10 years) never seen a > virus file replicating on Linux!! Are you sure it came from the > pen-drive and not were already present??
Funny perhaps to you :( I too thought my desktop was immune to such vulnerabilities. Yes, I am sure the <dir>.exe files were not there before inserting the pen drive. > Because, by logic and theory, the executable on the pen-drive CANNOT > execute on Linux. A windows executable CANNOT run on Linux. I do not know how the files got installed. I am suspecting something was in the autorun.inf. -- Arun Khan -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
