Stuxnet migrated from windows clients to another architecture and apparently did a lot of damage to its non-windows target. For microbes higher species are just transports. (ok - maybe the "higher=windows" analogy isn't so apt ;)
Mvh./Best Regards Roger Evans, Autodata Norge A/S http://www.autodata.no +47 93 25 92 36 On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 17:26 -0700, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 1/17/2013 at 09:26 AM, "Dean, David (I/S)" <david_d...@bcbst.com> > >>> wrote: > > Thanks, but what could a virus jumping from a windows server do to a Linux > > server considering that it would be coded for one or the other? The number > > of humans that have become infected with hoof and mouth disease is quite > > low. > > > > I am just extending the questioning because I deal with this yearly from the > > auditors. Once in a blue moon I feel guilty about lying to them. > > Nothing, but that's not the concern. The exposure is that a Linux system > acting as a file server to Windows client could spread Windows malware > throughout the network. There are two principles operating here: > 1. "Defense in depth" by having multiple layers of screening. > 2. Having a hybrid of screening products, each of which might catch something > the other won't. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
