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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.""
No, you dumbass. that would be true if you were the only one who wants to install a program. However, it isn't so. YOU might not look in the code, but OTHERS do.
Troll. (or ignorant, pick one)
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chroot does not do what you think it does. chroot allows an application to sandbox itself, limiting the potential exposure to the system should that application have a security issue.
additionally, if you're running as a regular user, then you don't have write permissions on system apps, and they can not get infected, even if they are SUID root.
i repeat, you're a fucking retard.
i don't deny for a second that i was rude calling him a fucking retard any more than i deny that it was also accurate.
moderating me down serves only to allow thousands of people to read his misinformation, and believe his lies.
That's because your Mac is a virus..
/me ducks the ensuing flamewar.
I think he meant software :)
"Look where we worship" -- Jim Morrison
Try, "A good reason not to run Windows."
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
What with the "must force authors to sign their name in blood GPL License", Linux IS a virus.
Replace Infect with Must Open Source, and you get the same thing.
Yeah. And then, how do you know your disassembler and debugger aren't compromised?