first Linux/windoze virus

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 18:06:34 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> Is it just me, or is there no explanation of how it is spread?

I saw this as well. No mention that getting a virus code into an ELF is
one thing, getting the program to be run is a different thing altogether.
Why do they think . is not in the path?

I think what they mean is that someone figured out that the ELF format allows
some interesting overrides of system calls and the like. Not a virus in and
of itself. 

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