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.
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