Maybe I'm missing the point, but Code Red was a MAJOR problem as it was able to use a remote IIS exploit to gain the permissions it needed. Thus it was able to make full use of computational speed to replicate (no user interaction required).
This trojan needs users to individually execute it, AND those users need privileged permissions for it to have a major effect. This will not result in the massive waves of infection that we saw with Code Red.
Hell, all linux needs now is to make friendly software that installs this easily;-)
This utility looks like it could be extremely useful for administrators of sltudents accounts. Anyone going over their quota will immeadiately have their account lzipp'ed;-) Of course if the system is running on a sparc (as in this case), a port will be needed. Any news in this regard...?
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You almost da man, Rich!
Maybe I'm missing the point, but Code Red was a MAJOR problem as it was able to use a remote IIS exploit to gain the permissions it needed. Thus it was able to make full use of computational speed to replicate (no user interaction required). ;-)
This trojan needs users to individually execute it, AND those users need privileged permissions for it to have a major effect. This will not result in the massive waves of infection that we saw with Code Red.
Hell, all linux needs now is to make friendly software that installs this easily
This utility looks like it could be extremely useful for administrators of sltudents accounts. Anyone going over their quota will immeadiately have their account lzipp'ed ;-) Of course if the system is running on a sparc (as in this case), a port will be needed. Any news in this regard...?