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Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump

Posted by michael on from the when-your-packet-sniffer-won't dept.

msolnik writes "Members of The Houston Linux Users Group discovered that the newest sources of libpcap and tcpdump available from tcpdump.org were contaminated with trojan code. HLUG has notified the maintainers of tcpdump.org. See our reports here or here."

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  1. Re:Hey, Slashdot, by yatest5 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Ooooh, bad, nasty flamebait. How dare you mock open-source's lame-ass anti-MS arguments!

    Starsky

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  2. Re:Big, bad Microsoft by scrytch · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Hey look, my perfect linux systems got 0wned, but hey there's big bad Microsoft over there, they might be doing this, hey pay attention to Microsoft hey now Microsoft is bad, please stop talking about anything that might be bad in linux because Microsoft is a bunch of meanie poo-poohs.

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