[PLUG] Linux /Windows virus appears (fwd)

Colin Kuskie ckuskie at dalsemi.com
Wed Jun 5 22:39:29 UTC 2002


On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:22:36PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I read both web pages but didn't see just how a Red Hat box would be
> infected.
> 
>   Any comments?

I found this like to a vnunet article on lwn.net:

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1132372

To paraphrase a quote from the article on lwn :)

"Unless you're root on the machine running silly email attachments,
you can basically sit back and laugh."

Colin




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