write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Fri Feb 13 11:24:00 CET 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> On ven, 2009-02-13 at 12:50 +0300, kalgecin at gmail.com wrote:
>> 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"
>
> But $user *is* stupid. Windows are mostly affected by viruses because of
> that, not because of flaws in the system.

Do you want me to argue that user stupidity *is* a flaw of the system? :-p

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Stephan



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