A virus or two

[AV3]

On Nov/21/2010 1:3722 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> 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.
>


Agreed. That is what I meant to say in the message you are replying to.

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