On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote: > > > Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root > > permission? Or can it? > > Like every so-called Linux virus, it requires the user to behave stupidly > - it's really a trojan horse. It has the same permission rules as any > other program, so it can't change root-owned files, unless they are > world-writable or you are running as root.
or your running MacOSX where pretty much all binaries are writable by the default user account. > The thing that's special about it is that it can infect both Windows and > Linux executables - which is really quite impressive. Otherwise it's > nothing special. something more nefarious would be for the virus when run from windows to find linux partitions and use internal ext2 support to modify binaries on the linux filesystems. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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