[ubuntu-in] Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns

2010-06-14 Thread Ramnarayan.K
A limited security concern butit has implications on how we view our Linux OS as far as on the net safety is concerned. Read more below or visit link to get more details and reader's comments - which are interesting Seems it yet again boils down to how careful / careless users are with respect

Re: [ubuntu-in] Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns

2010-06-14 Thread Nigel Babu
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.comwrote: A limited security concern butit has implications on how we view our Linux OS as far as on the net safety is concerned. Read more below or visit link to get more details and reader's comments - which are interesting

Re: [ubuntu-in] Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns

2010-06-14 Thread VIGNESH PRABHU
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.comwrote: Not sure how that will help. If someone has been able to upload or put a compromised package on a site, he can also put a md5sum for it. When you are downloading from a untrusted place, everything there can be

Re: [ubuntu-in] Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns

2010-06-14 Thread Narendra Diwate
My Apologies. Point understood. Regards Narendra Diwate On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 09:39, VIGNESH PRABHU stove311...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how that will help. If someone has been able to upload or put