[ubuntu-uk] A small Bet, because Im fed up with not knowing.

STONE COLD javad_ayaz at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 9 17:32:18 BST 2006


so you antivirus progs (kspersky,Lavasoft's ad aware) firewall, spyware 
removing applications be installed...i used to use them on windows! sorry im 
new with ubuntu!! :)

p.s someone please help with Kdetv..see my other post


>From: Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
>To: nik at reducedhackers.com, British Ubuntu Talk 
><ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] A small Bet, because Im fed up with not knowing.
>Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:42:32 +0100
>
>Nik,
>
>On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:00 +0100, Nik Butler wrote:
>
> > demonstrate a working Linux Virus that can
> >     infect their Ubuntu desktop account  ( and other users of that same
> > machine  ) by being launched from a email attachment.
> >     it must infect the core system files.
> >     it must set up its own mail user agent which it uses to propogate
> > copies of itself to members of your address book.
> >     it must attempt to replicate it self succesfully into another 
>machines.
>
>Maybe this is obvious, but this, to me, assumes the rather narrow view
>that the only threat out there is self propagating viruses. This is the
>case neither for Windows systems nor Linux systems. Even the BCC article
>does not say all the attacks were viruses!
>
>I've seen plenty of Linux/Unix systems compromised. The vast majority
>have been compromised through weak passwords or user's password being
>discovered.
>
>Most attacks seem to result in the running of a IRC bot, which can then
>be used to launch DDOS attacks or SPAM or whatever.
>
>I've also seen system utilities replaced with versions that hide the bad
>software, so root access must have been gained somehow.
>
>The only thing I'm not sure about is whether any of this is
>self-propagating.
>
>Regards,
>Tony.
>--
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>
>
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