[ubuntu-in] Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns

[Nigel Babu]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> A limited security concern butit has implications on how we view our
> Linux OS as far as on the net safety is concerned.
>
> Read more below
>
> or visit link to get more details and reader's comments - which are
> interesting
>
> Seems it yet again boils down to how careful / careless users are with
> respect to security permissions
>
>
> ram
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>
> <snip>
>

The main reason that everyone encourages md5sum on all your downloads is
this.  Whenever you download ubuntu or anything *not* from a trusted
repository, an md5 should be done to verify contents.  A lot of people
don't, but clearly this is more than enough reason to do it.

Warm Regards
Nigel Babu



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