An example of a Linux virus would be Linux.Bliss
More information can be found at the following website:
http://www.avp.ch/avpve/newexe/unix/bliss.stm
-Rich
Lionel Siau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:45:01PM -0500, Lloyd wrote:
> > > > I just found an attached file in this mailing list (I've seen
> > this file
> > > > in newsgroups, too)
> > > > called Happy99.exe. I'm pretty sure this is either a trojan horse or a
> > > > virus.
> > > >
> > > > Open it at your own risk.....
> > > >
> > > > If you just delete the message without opening it, you won't have any
> > > > damage.
> > >
> > > And if you read it with a real operating system, you can laugh
> > maniacally at
> > > the thought of all the Windows users who have just hosed their machine.
> > >
> > > Come on, doesn't anyone use Linux to read this mailing list?!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Steve Philp
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I sure was laughing...I've been on Linux full time since I wiped
> > NT's stink off
> > my HD plates :)
> > What a stupid joke, that virus is..."Practice safe computing, use Linux!"
>
> Erm..it is just as easy to write a virus on Linux thought the damage would
> be far more limited if u don't log in as root. I wonder why there hasn't
> been a Linux virus...yet? Could it be that all virus writers are anti-MS?
