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Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 21, 2005 @01:40AM from the caught-with-their-pants-down dept.

Magnus writes "Korean distributions of Mozilla and Thunderbird for Linux were infected with Virus.Linux.RST.b. This virus searches for executable ELF files in the current and /bin directories and infects them. It also contains a backdoor, which downloads scripts from another site, and executes them, using a standard shell."

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So let me get this straight... by SpocksLoveChild · 2005-09-21 01:42 · Score: 5, Funny

it's a virus?... for linux? I'm sorry but just don't understand the situation?
1. Re:So let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-21 01:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No worries. That is common for most slashdot readers.
Ha. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-21 01:43 · Score: 5, Funny

So much for OSS security. Show me one instance of this happening to Microsoft...
Oh, wait.
Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-21 01:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Birdflu ?
Re:No, no, no... Windows is as secure. by arkanes · 2005-09-21 02:22 · Score: 5, Funny

No, Windows is more secure because you can't write to a binary thats being executed or has been loaded by another process. Viruses can only infect your system files if you reboot!