A virus or two

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sunday, November 21, 2010, AV3 <arvimide at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Since the malware mentioned above was never mentioned in any Mac forum I
> subscribe to, and never again here, my concerns are theoretical. I
> imagine that malware to have a Mac-infecting component and a
> Windows-infecting component in a single package. Can you imagine a
> Linux-infecting component?

Such malware would be very highly reported, and yet isn't. There's
probably a reason for this. The largest cross platform threats to both
Windows, Mac and Linux stem from Adobe products and browser
vulnerabilities, and then the odd openssl or similar vulnerability.

Building a single executable for both (all three?) of those platforms
would be nearly impossible, otherwise many projects would be doing so
regularly. There is always the possibility of a virus affecting your
other partitions. Same goes for a windows virus when you've mounted a
Linux partition. This is not really an all out infection, as the virus
would be pretty powerless in the Linux environment itself, but it
could also spread to windows clients.