trojans and Ubuntu

R Kimber rkimber at ntlworld.com
Fri Jan 18 22:40:37 UTC 2008


On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:41:44 -0400
Joel Goguen wrote:

> Although I would assume he meant "7.10", or "Gutsy", I think I'd be
> more interested in details about this trojan.  I haven't heard of
> anything infecting a Linux machine just by visiting the site.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'visiting'.

There's an xscreensaver module that is supposed to display random
downloaded images from the net.  When I experimented with it, I found
that I was infected with 'showtree'.

Don't try this at home.
-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/




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