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04-11-2006, 12:38 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Finland
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1
Posts: 25
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Article states that the PoC virus is written in assembly. Isn't assembly more of platform specific than operation system specific? Those who more of this than me, please let me know how this makes a virus Windows/Linux specific, when it seems to be infact, x86-specific, including also OSX on x86?
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04-11-2006, 02:14 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9,870
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hi, just wanted to share this NewsForge article which was published today:
The case of the non-viral virus |
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04-18-2006, 07:32 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9,870
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lol. i was just about to post the same exact article. it's great stuff. my favorite part was:
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Leave it to open source hackers to debug and fix aging viral code so that it works correctly.
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04-19-2006, 12:24 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 3,658
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Yeah, I found that to be pretty damn amusing too. Gotta love Linus.
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