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[Adriaan Leijnse]

But how big is the chance that happens? That's close to nil...
A virus like that will probably not even spread, and could be called a
rootkit because of that.
Viruses that use kernel exploits etc. are virtually non-existant.
I mean, ask any linux user if they ever got a virus, good luck finding one :)
I'm just going off on this because people never believe that you don't
ever get viruses in linux, and I think part of the problem is this
'politically correct' marketing.

2007/1/4, Jan Claeys <ubuntu at janc.be>:
> Op woensdag 03-01-2007 om 23:15 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Adriaan
> Leijnse:
> > maybe just say that there aren't any viruses for linux?
> > (there are like 4 of them, and none of them are in the wild or work on
> > distro's newer than say 2005)
>
> Eh?
>
> Gigabyte[1] (Belgium's most famous virus writer) wrote a virus in TCL
> some years ago[2], and I see no reason why it wouldn't work anymore
> today.
>
> Or I could write a working virus myself, if you prefer, in python or
> bash or whatever...  ;-)
>
> Seriously, it's quite easy to write a virus, it's a bit more difficult
> to get a user to run it, and it's even more difficult to get it run with
> root privileges (although that might not be required for a virus to be
> successful).  But it's *really* possible to do so.
>
>
> [1] <http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=3&subid=85&art_id=153887>[3]
> [2] <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10907>
> [3] It took the FCCU 6 months to find her real identity.  It took me 2
>     minutes...   ;-)
>
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