Re: Wierdness -- is it a Linux virus?

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Ed Skinner wrote:

> Twice today I've seen the contents of the directory in which I was working (in
> a shell) disappear (as in "rm -rf *"). Anyone heard of a virus of some-such
> that might do that, or am I just fat-fingering something really bad??????


There are a couple of Linux virii, but I am not aware of any that are
currently active in the wild. It is certainly possible that your box has
been compromised and rooted. Happens ALL the time.

That being said, the number-one most likely source of all technical
problems is always user error. :)

~Jay

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