Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>]

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.
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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