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.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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