It's only a matter of time . . .

[George Toft]

I stand corrected.  I just read an in-depth analysis about W32.Winux - 
it runs under Windows and will infect Linux files that are shared via 
a network.  So if share your Linux drive to a Windows box, it will 
infect the Linux system.

So it will run under each O/S, but the infection point is always 
from Windows.

George


Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> > Now, let's see how long it takes some miscrant to combine this
> > infection method with a BIOS nuker (CIH Virus), a monitor killer
> > (one that monkeys with the H & V refresh settings), and is written
> > in 100% assembly so it runs under Linux also (W32.Winux).  This
> > will result in something that kills your monitor ($$$), cannot be
> > easily removed by the average person without buying a new MOBO ($$$),
> > and spreads to everything.  With 200,000 people replacing their
> > computers and monitors, it should jumpstart the economy, right?
> 
> I might be wrong on this, but even if something were written in assembly it
> wouldn't run on systems that it wasn't written for due to the headers of
> each system.... the part at the top of the file that says..  I'm a binary
> made for you.. you can run me... ELF on Linux.
> 
> Brian Cluff
> 
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