On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:58:42PM +1000, DaZZa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> A computer virus that can infect PCs running either the ubiquitous Windows
> operating system or the increasingly popular Linux operating system
> has emerged.
> http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?90166
> ---
>
> Amusing, but lacking somewhat in fact - typical of ZDnet. The web site of
> the company which apparently discovered it has some more detail -
> http://www.commandcentral.com
This place looks very wierd, maybe as weird as the virus itself.
And on zdnets site is says:
if the user clicks on this .... it will search for all files > 100KB
and then infect them.....
Mmmmh. How? for some obscure reason it knows the root password of the
machine to change a (for a user) read only file???
<baffled>
Jobst
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