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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. Here it comes..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well, in Korea, only old people use Mozilla and Thunderbird for Linux.

  2. Re:Infecting /bin.?.?. by pl1ght · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I was about to switch to OpenBSD because linux lacked this feature as well. Then i realized OpenBSD cant support my dual dual-core opterons, or my Nvidia 6800GT/SLI configuration. Oh i know OpenBSD is uber secure. But if i wanted a lackluster unfeatured OS just for security that had a tyrannical leader, i would have just installed MSDOS with a TCP/IP driver.