Ambidextrous Linux/Windows Virus

Lam1969 writes "Kaspersky Labs has reported a new proof-of-concept virus that can infect both Windows and Linux systems. It's called Virus.Linux.Bi.a/Virus.Win32.Bi.a and affects ELF binaries and .exe's from windows. SANS has a brief item on the cross-platform virus as well, but no information about a patch or signature yet."

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They Hate my AIBO.

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"For those thinking their "pet" computer is invulnerable to the virus threat -- it's not," SANS said.

Nooooo! not my AIBO. I knew I should have left off that email and news fetch hack.

What a bunch of BS. How exactly are they supposed to get this assembly code kludge to my machine? Are they going to try to barf zlib? As the article also pointed out, these things have been around since year 2000. In those six years there has been a big fat nothing done with them.

No, don't give me that "popularity" bullshit either. Linux runs most of the web and provides some of the most lucrative targets to Al Queda and other criminals. On the other end, free software run computers will always be more up to date and easier to recover. A Linux user with a misbehaving computer can fix point and click style in 20 minutes with a fairly knew distro or get the absolute latest and greatest with a net install of Debian. Computer stores can give users the distribution of their choice. Compare that to the non free world, where the user has to bring their "original" Windoze 98 or five year old XP CD into the store or pay $100 for software that might not even run on their old computer. The store then has to go through the mostly useless process of "patching" said ancient junk and the user gets burnt again soon after. The free software world, even a competitive non free world, will never be as bad as M$ is.