Hi,
not to give anyone any idea but a very simple destructive script can be
constructed with virus qualities.
1) Append a "at" command to a virus script to user's startup script.
2)The virus script would list all the processes running and extract those
PIDs with the current user name.
3) Redirect those PIDs to a iterative kill loop.
4) Wola...someone experiences self terminating xterms/processes
randomly......
However, unless it u get conned into running the first scriptwhen u're at
root, your're pretty safe. But then again, a lot of software is downloaded
from ftp servers and installed by root. So it can a serious problem in the
future.
Lionel
> Exactly that is why you can't be infected by a Winblows virus on a Mac
> platform and vice versa. It also is the same reason you can't run
Winbloze
> apps in Linux without an emulator. BTW, haven't seen too many viruses for
> Linux lately and how many are there for Winblows, umm ... around 50,000?
>
>
> *************************************
> Original message from: Dan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Toby Sheets wrote:
> >
> >> Is Linux susceptible to the same virii that Windoze is?
> >
> >No, because viruses are written for a particular processor/OS platform,
> >and none of the calls upon which a DOS/windows virus would rely are
> >present in Linux. Of course, if you're running WINE or VMWare, that's
> >another story...
> >
> >--
> >Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good
> >with ketchup.
