Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:40:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To: bostergaard@siticom.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bryan_=D8sterg=E5rd?=)
Cc: tlambert@primenet.com ('Terry Lambert'), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: Re: Virus targetting both Windows and Linux?
Message-ID: <200103282140.OAA12301@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <C3CC10B4E6D5D411B21D00508BEA25D40142FF@EXCHANGE-TMP> from "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bryan_=D8sterg=E5rd?=" at Mar 28, 2001 02:51:00 PM
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> The way this virus works, is as follows: > > It has one Linux ELF image capable of infecting both Linux ELF and Windows > PE files. > It has one Windows PE image capable of infecting both Linux ELF and Windows > PE files. > > This doesn't mean the same file will be able to run under both Windows and > Linux, quite the contrary. > So it's simple a Linux program capable of editing (infection) to different > executable formats, as well as a Windows program capable of the same. > > I hope this explanation clears up any confusion as to the possibility of > such a virus. I feel cheated. > As for spreading, Benny (the author of Winux) thinks that it should be able > to spread from Linux to Windows, as many users have a FAT (Windows) > partition mounted, for exchanging data. As far as I know he haven't > explained how the Windows version of Winux would spread to Linux. UMSDOSFS? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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