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Win32/Linux Cross-Platform Virus

Posted by michael on from the 20-klez-a-day dept.

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.""

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  1. One more reason... by forged · · Score: 3, Redundant

    ...not to be logged in as root. At least the typical Linux user can limit the damage this way.