----- Original Message ----- From: <alan@ibgames.com> To: "suse-linux-e" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] McAfee Finds First Linux Virus
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
On 9 Feb 2002 at 0:36, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"Bliss manifests itself by overwriting Linux executables with its own code every time it is executed. Files cannot be recovered and files created in other operating systems and stored on Linux servers can also be corrupted."