9 Feb
2002
9 Feb
'02
13:43
Hmmm - we need more info - that sounds like a trojan, rather than a virus to me.
alan
Yea, they tell us almost nothing about it. Regardless, unless you run this as root (or gave it permission to run as root when you installed it) then it can't over-write executables that belong to root unless you gave everyone on your system write permissions to executables.
John
I have not found any information on McAfee web site. Moreover it does not look like anything new (if it exists). If a sys admin executes binaries from an untrusted source, he deserves the trojan/virus! And the writer does not look very informed on what is Linux... "a Freeware version of Unix":-) Praise