On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:35 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Aditya Laghate wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > > > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
> > Funny perhaps to you :( I too thought my desktop was immune to such > vulnerabilities. Yes, I am sure the <dir>.exe files were not there > before inserting the pen drive. > > > Because, by logic and theory, the executable on the pen-drive CANNOT > > execute on Linux. A windows executable CANNOT run on Linux. > > I do not know how the files got installed. I am suspecting something > was in the autorun.inf. Again traditional knowledge says, autorun.inf cannot get executed on unix, unless the +x bit is set!! and even if +x bit was set, how did a windoze batch file commands work in Linux? Did u get a chance to open the autorun.inf file and see what it contained? Cheers Aditya -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
