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[Alessandro]

You can exploit Linux quite easily.  Let's not forget, there are still
shitty programmers out there, buffer overflows still do occur, thus the
stack is still vulnerable to being overwritten.



On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 08:27 -0700, Scott wrote:
> Steven Heimann wrote:
> 
> > If you are only trying to protect a stand alone Linux based PC from
> > viruses and worms there is probably not much point.  I don't know of any
> > attacks so far aimed at Linux.
> 
> 
> You need to get out more. ;-)
> 
> http://news.com.com/New+worm+targets+Linux+systems/2100-7349_3-5938475.html
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.slapper.worm.html
> http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=linux+worm
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.simile.html
> http://www.viruslibrary.com/virusinfo/Linux.RST.htm
> http://www.viruslibrary.com/virusinfo/JavaViruses.htm
> http://www.viruslibrary.com/virusinfo/PHP.Virdrus.htm
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.rst.b.html
> 
> They're quite rare and (typically) comparitively harmless but if Linux 
> ever really takes off I'm sure we'll see more.
> 
> -- 
> Scott
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