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Linux and the Smile.D Virus keeps us Smiling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-your-giggle-on dept.

pstreck writes "News Forge is running a humor filled satire on the the recent Smile.D cross platform virus. It's a good read and just another reminder of why that other operating system needs to figure out a new security policy."

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  1. No need to be left out by PD · · Score: 4, Funny

    - YOUR HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS -

    This virus works on the honor system:

    If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward
    this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your
    files at random.

    --
    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
    1. Re:No need to be left out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I take offense to that joke, because I am Amish. Wait, hang on a second...

      (sound of hand covering the tin can phone, talking in background.)

      [Malachi! Pedal harder! I'm trying to read fucking Slashdot. If you stop, I will smite you upside your head.]

      OK, I'm back. As I said, Amish jokes aren't funny. Why don't you ever pick on the Mennonites?

  2. You laugh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Its all fun and games til someone loses a drive.

  3. Lindows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Haven't tried myself but from what I've read it seems that the whole Lindows thing is running as root all the time.

    This must be a feature. You can't emulate the total Windows experience unless you are susceptible to every random virus that comes along.

  4. Damn, I tried it by joshtimmons · · Score: 4, Funny

    $ rm -f -r /
    rm: /: Permission denied

    I can't even get the unix virus! I'm such a luser.

  5. uhhh. by Gavitron_zero · · Score: 2, Funny
    Maybe someday someone will write a virus that can log into your Linux system as root and really mess it up.

    Buh??? Why would you need to write a virus to do this, most linux boxes out there have lots of stuff you can exploit to get root yourself.

  6. This article sucked. by bugg · · Score: 2, Funny
    This article sucked. This article sucked so much that while I was reading this sucky article I died of suck overdose and my soul tried to go up to heaven but the black hole that is suck sucked by soul back down into my sucking budy to finish reading this sucky article.

    CmdrTaco, don't post sucky articles for your sucky friends just because they ask you to. Read the sucky article yourself first. It sucks.

    Now do you see how non-constructive criticism feels?

    ...getting rid of extra karma since 1867.

    --
    -bugg