On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote: > > > Marius Gavrilescu <mar...@ieval.ro> wrote: > >>On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:19:46AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >>> These are real-life viruses that should not be distributed >>> using Debian's FTP server (IMHO). >> >>Even if they wre real, they would be "real-life" MS Windows viruses in >>emails in a debian package. For someone to get "infected" they would >>have >>to run MS Windows, download a debian package, unpack it, open a file >>named >>"virusN" in an email viewer and run the attached file. >> >>However, as far as I know they're not actual viruses, they're just made >>to >>look like them (i.e. they contain the signatures, but not the harmful >>code). >> >>Therefore they're harmless. > > Correct. > > Scott K
FYI, some Windows viruses work under Wine (which can do whatever your normal user can do, unless you're using AppArmor or something similar to restrict it). -- -Austin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CACC5Q1egjmC1xGGGSJEt+N_wksqzC8fJyu=f0dy1ivfmnsx...@mail.gmail.com
