Linux virus ??

Tom Wilson twilson
Thu Nov 11 09:15:15 PST 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 17:46, James McDonald 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.

On a similar note, anyone catch this
http://hohle.net/scrap_post.php?post=23&m=full on /. last week?   

It's a grand experiment of what actually happens when one types either
rm -rf / or format c:\ 

Kinda humorous.  


Tom Wilson 
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