Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-31 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Reading the article mentioned by Charles in the thread "follow up on that >virus story" (http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/lindose.shtml) this seems >indeed to be the case. I'm not really surprised. All bets are off if it's ex

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Justin, > not if windoze can't see an ext2 partition though. I knew this would come up. Of course you can see ext2 paritions from Windows. The virus probably uses it's own code for this, but if you want an example that one can see ext2fs from Windows, have a look at explore

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-30 Thread Justin Zygmont
not if windoze can't see an ext2 partition though. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Justin, > > > how do you know if they meant embedded assembly? you can make a C program and > > embed some assembly to infect an ELF executable. You would have to be root

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Justin, > > > how do you know if they meant embedded assembly? you can make a C program and > > embed some assembly to infect an ELF executable. You would have to be root > > however. > > This could also be an issue on dual

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi all, > This could also be an issue on dual boot systems. Virus running on Windows > infecting ELF binaries. I have no doubt this can be done. Reading the article mentioned by Charles in the thread "follow up on that virus story" (http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/lindose.s

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Justin, > how do you know if they meant embedded assembly? you can make a C program and > embed some assembly to infect an ELF executable. You would have to be root > however. This could also be an issue on dual boot systems. Virus running on Windows infecting ELF binaries

RE: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-29 Thread TANNER
gards, Rob > -Original Message- > From: Justin Zygmont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:49 PM > To: Jerry Winegarden > Cc: Redhat-List (E-mail) > Subject: Re: An interesting virus story... > > > how do you know if they meant embedded assembly? yo

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-29 Thread Justin Zygmont
how do you know if they meant embedded assembly? you can make a C program and embed some assembly to infect an ELF executable. You would have to be root however. How about win NT viruses, are there any of those out there? On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001,

RE: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Chris Worth
it, but I for one am lazy in that regard. It was >at least either amusing or interesting or both. > >Paul Anderson > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerry Winegarden >Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:16 PM >To: R

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden blurted out: JW>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Chuck Mead wrote: JW> JW>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden blurted out: JW>> JW>> JW>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: JW>> JW> JW>> JW>> http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html JW>

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Jerry Winegarden
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Chuck Mead wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden blurted out: > > JW>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: > JW> > JW>> http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html > > JW>I don't know clowns to the left of me, bozos to the right... :

RE: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Paul Anderson
, 2001 2:16 PM To: Redhat-List (E-mail) Subject: Re: An interesting virus story... On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: > http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html > > This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that > affects Lin

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jerry Winegarden blurted out: JW>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: JW> JW>> http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html JW>> JW>> This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that JW>> affects Linux. This form is nondestr

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Michael R. Jinks
Chuck Mead wrote: > Pure BS unless you're silly enough to read mail and execute unknown > binaries which have arrived in the mail as root (which presumes the > thing even arrives by mail)! ~sigh this is a case of journalistic > sensationalism crying wolf when there ain't nuttin there but a >

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Jerry Winegarden
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: > http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html > > This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that > affects Linux. This form is nondestructive, but it only takes a script > kiddie to change all of that. Th

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson wrote: > http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html > > This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that > affects Linux. This form is nondestructive, but it only takes a script > kiddie to change all of that. Th

Re: An interesting virus story...

2001-03-28 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Anderson blurted out: PA>http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html PA> PA>This is an interesting article about a new, and I think first, virus that PA>affects Linux. This form is nondestructive, but it only takes a script PA>kiddie to change all