Well, Windows is the only platform malware authors develop for. When they get around to Linux we'll know Linux has arrived. I have never seen malware, myself, but I've been using non-Windows PCs since 1997.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 13:28, Timothy J. Wiley <tjwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > So you're implying that only Windows is currently vulnerable to attacks? > Wow. > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM, <abr...@peak.org> wrote: >> >> Neither. I am talking about the next generation infection which >> installs a VM under your OS. There has been talk of this for >> a while, but so far as I know none yet exists. But installing >> in the MBR is a critical element of any such VM infection. >> -- >> Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ >> A bug is a test case you haven't written yet. --- Mark Pilgrim >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Timothy J. Wiley" <tjwi...@gmail.com> >> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug@euglug.org> >> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:47:59 PM >> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Bot infection stored in MBR >> >> >> Vulnerable to what? This particular infection or infections in general? >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM, < abr...@peak.org > wrote: >> >> >> This seems like a small step away from booting into a virtual >> machine. At that point all OSs are vulnerable, not just >> Windoze. >> >> -- >> Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ >> Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the >> time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. ---unknown source >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mr O" < notanathe...@yahoo.com > >> To: abr...@peak.org , "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" < >> euglug@euglug.org > >> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:46:53 AM >> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Bot infection stored in MBR >> >> Nothing new here. Move along. >> >> >> --- On Thu, 6/30/11, Allen Brown < abr...@peak.org > wrote: >> >> > From: Allen Brown < abr...@peak.org > >> > Subject: [Eug-lug] Bot infection stored in MBR >> > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" < euglug@euglug.org > >> > Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 10:34 AM >> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13973805 >> > -- >> > Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ >> > Is there another word for synonym? --- >> > George Carlin >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > -- Edward P. Craig "Think this through with me. Let me know your mind" Hunter/Garcia _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
