Yeah, I guess so. There have been viruses and worms for this platform but they didn't become that popular and nor do their creators. Some of the virus writers write virus,not because they want to show their skills but because they hate M$oft. No wonder why! Some of them write because they want to get famous. Some are real little kids that use really cool & easily tools for all that kind of stuff. Linux is open-source, there are so many other nice "real low level" things to do that fools will be spending so much of time writing virus for it.
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P.S.: Tarun, Did you buy broadband in jodhpur?
On 11/11/05, Tarun Kant <tarunkant@...> wrote:
> I think this is the second worm of its type on linux. Ain't it? Are these
> people really fed up of window? :-)
Or people from Windows camp !?!
Whosoever it is, the efforts will largely be futile and not as damaging as on the other side.
> regards
> --himanshu
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> On 11/9/05, Tarun Kant <tarunkant@...> wrote:
> >
> > Security outfit McAfee has published details of a Linux worm.
> >
> > The worm is a modified derivative of the BSD/Scalper worms and spreads by
> > exploiting web servers hosting vulnerable PHP/CGI scripts.
> >
> > It blindly attacks webservers by sending malicious http requests on port
> > 80. If server happens to run one of the vulnerable scripts the worm is
> > copied and sent out to form a global network of compromised servers which
> > can be used for Zombie attacks or spambots.
> >
> > More here:
> > http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_136821.htm
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