write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

[kalgecin at gmail.com]

I think this "virus" thing is stupid. I might as well send the user a
binary and trick him to execute it. it's even easier than how the
author wrote. how ever it's as stated "USER STUPIDITY"

On 2/13/09, Christoph Mende <angelos at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:10:25 +0800
> cathayan <cathayan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> Maybe some people here have already noticed this article:
>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/319072
>> http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229
>>
>> The author proposed a method to write KDE/Gnome virus, by using the
>> .desktop file and autostart feature of modern DE. I tried on Xfce4.4,
>> and got a same result. So, what do you think of it?
>>
>> BTW, where does the Xfce4 save its own autostart configuration file
>> (used by xfce4-autostart-editor)?
>>
>>
>
> Not sure if this is anywhere near critical... the author himself says
> several times "this requires extreme user stupidity" and... considering
> that most desktop machines are x86 or can at least execute x86 binaries
> (amd64 multilib), I can see I wrote an even better virus. This is my
> version: a simple C app that listens on some port, accepts every
> connection, executes everything sent to it and echos back the result.
> And guess what, the source is 32 lines. You just have to send the
> compiled version (maybe even statically linked, even though it's only
> linked against glibc) and tell the user to execute it.
>
> To your question: Auto-started apps are in ~/.config/autostart, think
> that's the path specified by some FDO spec or something.
>
> --
> Christoph Mende
> Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Lead and Release Engineering
> GPG: EE2A 454A 6A3B A2D8 E43B  FF45 2A19 C3B3 6DA0 C1AF
>


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