Linux virus ??

David Bandel david.bandel
Wed Nov 10 19:27:05 PST 2004


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:46:19 +1100, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> Raymond Russell wrote:
> 
> >
> > Similar code was labeled as the first OSX virus and made a big
> > splash on news web sites around the net.  Windows users were
> > gloating in forums how OSX was going to be the target for virus writers
> > now.
> >
> > Some sites even claimed this was a worm despite the fact that
> > it does not replicate.  It seems like windows users are trying to
> > make them selves feel better about their flawed OS.
> >
> yeah in the same manner that if you do rm -rf / as root that's a virus too.

Only if you have the flu when you do it ;-).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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