Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:05:17 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux/Windows Virus Message-ID: <200206101805.g5AI5HGn004193@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> of "Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:12:50 PDT." <200206101712.g5AHCoEP008968@apollo.backplane.com>
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Let's hope that's the case. I suspect that you could be right that
it's unlikely to spread, however I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude,
e.g. this is nothing to be alarmed about yet.
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In message <200206101712.g5AHCoEP008968@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew
Dillon w
rites:
> 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.
> :
> :
> :--
> :Cheers, Phone: 250-387-8437
> :Cy Schubert Fax: 250-387-5766
> :Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
> :Open Systems Group, CITS
> :Ministry of Management Services
> :Province of BC
> : FreeBSD UNIX: cy@FreeBSD.org
> :
> :
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