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08-18-2003, 10:02 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Syria - Damascus
Posts: 3
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virus in Linux
is thire is any virus in Linux ?
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08-18-2003, 10:19 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,257
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I have heard of worms, and root exploits (buffer overflows), but I have never heard of a virus which will spread "in the wild".
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08-18-2003, 11:13 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
Posts: 1,403
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There are some worms that will infect the Apache web server.
Also, there are many thread on LQ concerning this topic,
If you want to find them, perform a search.
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08-18-2003, 03:05 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Suse
Posts: 20
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Check this out:
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/33969.htm
Windows users prompted (by Microsoft) to stay of the internet 'cause of the DCOM worm. |
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08-18-2003, 03:47 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Sudbury Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 388
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Speaking of dcom, I read at The Register that windowsupdate.com
has stopped using win2k3 server and installed linux to defeat the
blaster worm.
vexer
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08-18-2003, 03:57 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
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Do you have the link to the article  |
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08-18-2003, 04:10 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 720
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I do 
They didn't actually switch to Linux. Only their routing service provided by another company uses Linux, and because of how they set it all up, it looked on netcraft as if MS was using Linux/IIS. Old /. story on it too if you care to search for it.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32385.html |
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08-18-2003, 04:25 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
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Excellent. 
This is so good. 
You should create a thread in the General section. |
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08-18-2003, 05:00 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2003
Distribution: Slackware 9.1
Posts: 85
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my school district updated from 98 to xp over the summer, now every computer in the county has blaster |
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08-18-2003, 06:03 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Distribution: gentoo
Posts: 52
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I seem to remeber that a couple of windows viruses will work under WINE. |
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08-18-2003, 06:39 PM
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Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Linux Mint
Posts: 106
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Quote:
Originally posted by gargamel237
I seem to remeber that a couple of windows viruses will work under WINE.
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LOL! Viruses probably run better under Wine than applications! |
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08-18-2003, 08:30 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Distribution: Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat/CentOS
Posts: 719
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Quote:
Originally posted by chris319
LOL! Viruses probably run better under Wine than applications!
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OH no! We are going to start seeing posts like these now:
Hello!
Newbie here!
I am trying to compile the latest M$ virus to run under wine and gcc keeps spitting up errors
a little help please  |
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08-18-2003, 10:39 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Linux Mint
Posts: 106
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Quote:
Hello!
Newbie here!
I am trying to compile the latest M$ virus to run under wine and gcc keeps spitting up errors
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Try winelib. |
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