I had to forward this link. This is so scary the more people that see it the better. http://www.hackernews.com/bufferoverflow/99/nitmar/nitmar1.html Basically this is a description of a trojan/virus system which is streets more sophisticated than anything ever released to date. The author has put effort into designing a virus born system which, when installed on your machine, communicates with a number of central servers via the 'net. He's gone to lengths to think through the ways in which these programs can get into systems, how they can morph themselves so they can't be detected by scanning software, how they can spread themselves, and how they can sit dormant, waiting for an instruction to come in that causes them to act. It puts the fate of your machine into the hands of someone, somewhere, who might sometime decide to type the word "DESTROY" into a file somewhere. This is aimed it at Windows, but, given there's no lack of root exploits on Linux machines, this could easily be reworked to infiltrate then attack Linux boxes. As he points out, the only reason this hasn't been done so far is because the people who are capable of this sort of thing are too sensible to implement it. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq