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  • From: "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>
  • To: Kirk Lowery <kelowery AT cs.com>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Aftermath of virus
  • Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 17:27:17 +0000


At 12:43 02/12/01, Kirk Lowery wrote:

Of course, the only
long-term solution to worms and viruses is to use a properly secured
operating system like Linux (there are *no* viruses for that OS)...

Well, I suggest you let Symantec know this, because their Anti-virus Centre is currently listing, inter alia;
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Linux.Hijacker.Worm

Discovered on: May 18, 2001

This is a worm that attempts to insert itself onto systems running Red Hat Linux 6.2
and 7.x, and possibly other System V-based Linux versions, that have already been
compromised by any other backdoor that has root privileges. It then attempts
to
remove any other backdoor Trojans on that system, and then tries to spread itself to
other similar system across the Internet.
*****************************

Then there is:
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Linux.Adore.Worm is a worm that spreads on Linux systems. The worm targets
vulnerabilities commonly found on default installations of Linux.
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I won't take up any more bandwidth, but suggest you go to http://www.symantec.com/search/ for further details.

Regards,
Maurice


Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros AT iol.ie







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