11 Jul
2007
11 Jul
'07
6:43 a.m.
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 11:47, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 11-Jul-07, at 11:38 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
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
i am not talking of worms and trojans - i am talking of virus
OK, Mr Hair-splitter, yes it can.
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