Just curious -- how does it get to infect? It needs to be executed? Or
thru sendmail vulnerability?
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, macky wrote:
> Monday 7th January 2002 2:55pm
>
> Linux OS facing Trojan attack
>
>
> Virus warning hits the open source community...
>
>
> Security experts are warning companies of a Linux virus variant.
>
> The virus has similarities to a virus bearing the Remote Shell Trojan (RST),
>
> discovered in October last year, according to security newsgroup
> SecurityFocus. It is designed
> only to attack systems running Linux OS.
>
>
> Once the virus, titled RST.b which spreads via email, has gained a foothold
> in the system,
> it installs a back door Trojan which tries to achieve root access privileges
> and gain access
> to all information on the network.
> The main difference to the October version is that the variant virus tries
> to communicate
> with the attacked machine from a different IP address and it has different
> operating protocols
> to the original version of the RST.
>
> Companies worried about the virus should update their anti-virus software.
>
>
>
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