Re: Virus from german Debian Mirror ?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

Hallo Joachim,

> when installing a Debian today from CDs all seemed well until we 
> installed two additional packages using a mirror (zlib-dev and 
> jpeg-something).
> We also updated the system using apt-get upgrade. Shortly after that 
> the system started to have problems. We identified the source of the 
> problems as a virus ( Linux.Osf.8759). It seems we got that virus from 
> the mirror. The mirror is ftp.de.debian.org.

Do you have any indication on which package contained the virus?

Regards
Johann
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