-----Original Message-----
From: Federico Strati - Red Hat Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Antivirus stuff


>ehmm... do you still use the "su" command without the
>trailing minus?
>(like in "su -")... then find the man page for su!


Only gotta forget once...

And it could infect anything else you run.

Got a favorite Perl script that you edit as yourself instead of root, but
sometimes use as root?  Pretty easy to replace it with an executable, rename
the script, and then run the renamed script after you fork off a nasty virus
process that runs rampant through your filesystem.



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