on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:11:00PM -0900, Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote: <...> > > The thing that's special about it is that it can infect both Windows and > > Linux executables - which is really quite impressive. Otherwise it's > > nothing special. > > something more nefarious would be for the virus when run from windows > to find linux partitions and use internal ext2 support to modify > binaries on the linux filesystems. Hmm...dual-booting considered harmful. Interesting. Short version being that relying on OS filesystem protections to keep you from mangling your system files is an invalid assumption if: - You're booting multiple OSs. - One or more of the OSs offers filesystem access to others. - The filesystem access doesn't respect user-level permissions offered by the host OS. Very interesting. You're not paranoid. They really *are* out to get you. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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