Original Sender : Ryo Saeba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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At 12:03 PM 7/23/99 +0700, t_irawan wrote:
>bukannya mau berpolemik ... hanya memberi info saja ... :)
Betul, info tahun 1997.
>Coba ke site ini : ( kalau nggak salah ingat )
>http://www.singlesheaven.com/stas/TULARC/
>cari bagian Linux ... kalau nggak salah ada cerita mengenai virus
>yg pertama di Linux ... sorry, waktu itu nggak sempat baca-baca
>Atau Search saja di Search Engine ... :)
Tampaknya mas Irawan ini masih belum saja mengerti polemik yang kita
bicarakan di Hackerlink dulu, tentang mudahnya Win9x diserang virus dan
sulitnya Linux diserang oleh virus (bukan tidak mungkin, karena bisa saja
pengguna Linux yang 'nubi' selalu pakai account root untuk mesin Linux-nya,
yang notabene bisa dibilang 'sinting'). Tampaknya paragraf di bawah ini
yang harus benar2 dicamkan oleh mas Irawan:
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People have always known that, theoretically, such viruses could exist. But
they really weren't worried about them spreading: Unix operating systems
are typically difficult to infect because a virus writer must have
administrative privileges to get into a system.
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Ini kutipan selengkapnya:
http://www.singlesheaven.com/stas/TULARC/os/linux.virus.html
First virus infects Linux
By Janet Kornblum
February 7, 1997, 5:15 p.m. PT
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You might think that Jimmy Kuo would be out popping a bottle of bubbly.
After all, as director of antivirus research at McAfee, he helped find the
world's first Linux virus.
Yet Kuo, who identified the virus after it was forwarded to him from an
email list, is anything but thrilled. Finding the first virus on the Linux
operating system makes him feel more like the a scientist discovering that
Ebola had made its way to the Uni ted States. It opens the door for a lot
of damage, work, and headaches.
Right now, the virus dubbed Bliss is more of a novelty than anything. Bliss
itself isn't likely to spread very far, but Kuo isn't thinking about now.
He's thinking about six months down the road. Bliss will be seen as the
watershed marker--the day virus w riters realized that spreading their
nasty tricks would be possible on a whole new operating system.
They'll start getting to work, and "six months down the line, people will
have to start worrying about it," said Kuo, a well-respected researcher in
his field. "It opens the door for more work."
People have always known that, theoretically, such viruses could exist. But
they really weren't worried about them spreading: Unix operating systems
are typically difficult to infect because a virus writer must have
administrative privileges to get into a system.
But Linux users are particularly vulnerable because many do things like
play games over the Internet, Kuo said. And, when they do, they often get
careless and play in Linux's administrative mode, called "root."
Kuo added that Linux, a free operating system, the most popular version of
which runs on Intel-based computers, (it also runs on other platforms) is
now popular enough to become a real target. "This virus, in being a first,
now proves that it is do-able and will attract more virus writers," he said.
Addressing today's problem, McAfee has created a scanner and posted a free
solution on the Net for Bliss, which infects executable files. Each time it
is executed, it overwrites two or more files, making it fairly easy to detect.
The virus isn't likely to spread very far because it is easy to detect. In
fact, the person who claims to have authored the virus said he wrote it
simply to prove it could be done. But Kuo isn't worried about this
particular virus. He's more concerned tha t it proves the vulnerability of
another system and will encourage others to write viruses for it.
In other words, he's worried about tomorrow.
I want to live for love,
not to die for love - CiTyHuNTeR
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