There's nothing to worry about that stupid worm, but we must seriously consider this
new generation of viruses that will spread all over the net by the beginning of next autumn. This viruses can be catalogued as:
Multi-Platforms cooperative Virus
They are multiplatforms and can infect embedded systems up to super calculator,
they are based on the simple concept of cooperation between users.
The infection start soon after reading an email like this :
From : foo@foo.com
Subject : Help us
Hi we are a new underground group, we do not have
enough experience in coding destructive virus, so please help us.
Do the following task :
Delete every files from your hard diskes and floppies
Send this email to every member of your contact list.
I remember that one of the first rule that a real sysadmin has to follow is that he/she must never execute untrusted binary programs as root, but only with an unprivileged account, now I can't imagine a sysadmin that receive a mail from someone with a binary attachemnet and he immediately run it as root, probably he will issue this command
# mv binary_attach/dev/null
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new generation of viruses that will spread all over the net by the beginning of next autumn. This viruses can be catalogued as
Multi-Platforms cooperative Virus
They are multiplatforms and can infect embedded systems up to super calculator,
they are based on the simple concept of cooperation between users.
The infection start soon after reading an email like this :
From : foo@foo.com
Subject : Help us
Hi we are a new underground group, we do not have
enough experience in coding destructive virus, so please help us.
Do the following task :
Delete every files from your hard diskes and floppies
Send this email to every member of your contact list.
Thank for helping us!
I remember that one of the first rule that a real sysadmin has to follow is that he/she must never execute untrusted binary programs as root, but only with an unprivileged account, now I can't imagine a sysadmin that receive a mail from someone with a binary attachemnet and he immediately run it as root, probably he will issue this command /dev/null
# mv binary_attach
In a few years we shall pay royalty to every company in the world since they will have copyrighted every word!