Virus Issue

[albi]

> i do not tell that we are all going on the edge. (at least not now)
> nevertheless, viruses and whatever other uggle stuff is shuffling around
> in the world wide web (consider the notation: 'web' instead of 'net' -
> caught in the web, haha!) can also harm a Linux system.
> we should be realists. the danger will grow also to our systems (see the
> links below).
>
>
> http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/01/23/news13.html
>
> http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/bliss.shtml
>
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3307459975.html

well, it reminds me of the Bliss-story -really- went, Bliss was a proof of
concept, the author pf Bliss wanted to show that it is/was possible to create
a virus for Linux, the author informed a person from Redhat or some
Redhat-list at that time

what happened then that McAfee said that it found the very first virus for
Linux and that they had an updated version of their antivirus-scanner,
however i've read in a linux-list at that time that the Bliss-virus had to
be manually started as root to be really doing bad things and there was a
simple solution to get rid of it, and i think the author of Bliss even had
it made to do some sort of logging so you could see what it did

i find this typical behavior of antivirus-companies, they try to disinform
you (MS-Windows is a breedingplace for viruses in general), and scare you
so you will buy their software, but what McAfee did in this is imho
hilarious