backing up windows

[Alma J Wetzker]

> Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:26:56 -0700
> 
> Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>> If you open the message while in windoze, then you are infected.  The 
>> virus NEEDS the OS to respond before it can do it's thing.  If the OS 
>> doesn't respond, and linux will not respond to a windoze targetted 
>> attack unles wine responds, the virus never starts.
>>
>>     -- Alma
>>
> 
> Are these sobig virii Outlook (express) specific, or are other mail 
> clients, say Netscape (on windows) or eudora, vulnerable?

In general, any client can be vulnerable.  You need to execute the 
attachment in order to be infected.  (Outlook can be configured to 
execute attachments for you, it was the default last time I used it.)

I am not sure, but I think sobig is the same way.

The advantage to linux is, even under wine there is a permissions issue 
to the infection.  To be fair, a NT kernel version of windoze could be 
made secure the same way, I am not sure how usable it would be 
afterwards....

     -- Alma