11 Jul
2007
11 Jul
'07
6:08 a.m.
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 10:46, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 10-Jul-07, at 6:45 PM, Philip Tellis wrote:
can some one tell me what does one require to develop virus for the linux kernel or gnu OS?
One requires a stupid (or at least clueless) user. There are millions of them around.
but no one has answered Krishnakanth's question: given a stupid user who downloads and runs an executable containing a virus - can this executable 'infect' other executables and propagate in linux?
Yes it can, otherwise web- and ftp-propagating worms and trojans for Linux would not exist. You don't even need a user, just a bad web programmer or a vulnerable binary.
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