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Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected by wild_berry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's a serious threat to the elderly members of society who are at increased risk of catching flu from their e-mail program.

  2. would this be considered a.... by Ostien · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Zeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggg rrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssshhhhhhhhh!!!!!

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  3. Re:Apples to Apples? by millennial · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To get infected on Windows you... have to turn the system on. As far as I can tell.

    Not sure if you were being facetious, but in some cases this is exactly right. From 2001-2003 at Michigan Tech University, anyone on the residential network who had a fresh install of Windows XP running would almost immediately be infected with a virus - either Klez or someting else, I can't remember. The vulnerability lay in the totally unprotected "Shared Documents" folder that was automatically shared with full access in both Home and Professional versions of XP (pre-SP1). Someone would get hooked into the NetBIOS system, and their machine would be infected.

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