From the article:
>David Perry of Trend Micro, an Internet monitoring firm, said the latest worm may have been
derived >from the Zotob worm, which was first reported over the weekend.
>Ullrich, of the Sans Institute, said Zotob "will connect to a control server to ask for
>instructions. It scans network neighborhoods and tries to infect them, as well."
This is a win32 worm. No worries for Linux users. The phrase "network neighborhoods" above indicates
that it relies on Windows networking exploits to spread. As usual, the variety of GNU/Linux systems
just don't seem like a big enough, predictable enough target for these sorts of worms and their authors.
HTH,
-Max
Jeff Newton wrote:
anyone know about this if only windows is effect or if linux would be
affected as well??
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/16/computer.worm/index.html
Jeff
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