Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:12:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux/Windows Virus Message-ID: <200206101712.g5AHCoEP008968@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200206101629.g5AGTOGn003781@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Pah. It looks pretty stupid to me. I see lots of articles hyping the
thing up and prognasticating the first 'multi platform' virus, but not
a single solid report of an actual infection and not a single
description of the transmission vector other then vague guesses
that it might be remote-shell related (aka like an old ssh hole).
It is highly unlikely that even an old, vulnerable sshd running on
FreeBSD could be infected by this thing.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
:This should probably concern anyone using Linux emulation under
:FreeBSD. I suspect that it may also attempt to infect FreeBSD
:binaries, rendering them useless.
:
:http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.simile.html
:
:Be careful what you run.
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:Cy Schubert Fax: 250-387-5766
:Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
:Open Systems Group, CITS
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