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Win32/Linux Cross-Platform Virus
An Anonymous Coward writes "Symantec reports on the first virus to infect both ELF and PE binaries on Linux and Win32. "The first Win32/Linux cross-infector, {Win32,Linux}/Peelf, uses two separate routines to carry out the infection on PE and ELF files. This variant of Simile shares a substantial amount of code between the two infection functions, such as the polymorphic/metamorphic engines, the only platform-specific parts being the directory traversal code and the API usage.""
Who would want to target a dying platform like
*BSD.
Windows can handle viruses, but with all of linuxes security holes, this could be the end of the OS all together.
Va Linux will surely collapse now with this new news.
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You probably have AIDS by now, idiot.
Nothing that infects OS X.
Wow, I'm amazed that an OS that's been out for a year doesn't have a virus yet. Ugh, what a dipshit you must be eh? Does it hurt to be so stupid or is ignorance really bliss?
The only reason no viruses affect macs is there's not enough people using the damn things. Besides, where's the fun in deleting a bunch of gay porn?
Theres more fun in deleting your gay child porn, dipshit
>It only takes me about 10-15 minutes the get my system back up if I
>had to reinstall. It's all my personal files that can't be replaced
>that would make the experience traumatic.
And we're supposed to give a damn about your personal files because?