* FW: THE INFOWORLD SCOOP P.M. EDITION, Wednesday, March 28, 2001
@ Stephen Dawes
` Frank Carmickle
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Dawes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup@Braille. Uwo. Ca
Well, according to the attached article, it has finally happened. I am
referring to the article on the first virus to infect both Windows and
Linux.
Note: The attached article is a summary, with a link to the full article at
the end of it.
Enjoy!
Oh yeah! Once you have read thins article, you will know as much as I do
with regards to this topic, so don't ask me any questions about it, but, I
am open to any discussion that this article creates
Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
PHONE: (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
E-MAIL ADDRESS: sdawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca
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Wednesday, March 28, 2001
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STARTUPS AIM TO MOVE INTEGRATION TO NETWORK LAYER
Posted at March 28, 2001 07:46 AM Pacific
THE NATURE OF application and data integration is
changing. The early whisperings of EAI's (enterprise
application integration's) demise are proving
premature, and the technology is now finding a few
emerging options.
Among EAI's new brethren are companies focused on IDI
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ORACLE ASP APPSHOP READIES WIRELESS DELIVERY
Posted at March 28, 2001 07:22 AM Pacific
APPSHOP, AN ORACLE e-Business Suite ASP (application
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FIRST VIRUS TO INFECT WINDOWS AND LINUX APPS APPEARS
Posted at March 28, 2001 07:13 AM Pacific
ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS are reporting the
appearance of the first virus to infect applications
on systems running either Linux or Microsoft's Windows
-- although it presents little danger, they say.
The virus -- known variously as W32.Winux,
Linux.PEElf.2132, Linux.Winux, or W32/Lindose -- is
carried in Linux or Windows executable files. When an
application infected with it is run, it spreads to
other executable files in the same or adjacent
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GUNINSKI FINDS ANOTHER HOLE IN MS EXCHANGE SECURITY
Posted at March 28, 2001 06:47 AM Pacific
BULGARIAN BUG HUNTER Georgi Guninski said in an
advisory Wednesday that a security risk is created in
interactions between Microsoft's Internet Explorer
(IE), Internet Information Server (IIS), and Exchange
2000 software, potentially baring server directories
and e-mail to prying eyes.
The advisory said Microsoft's OLE DB for Internet
publishing program, a tool used to help Web-publish
information stored in databases, gives a scripting
interface for accessing and manipulating objects on
IIS 5.0 or in Web storage.
For the full story:
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* Re: FW: THE INFOWORLD SCOOP P.M. EDITION, Wednesday, March 28, 2001
FW: THE INFOWORLD SCOOP P.M. EDITION, Wednesday, March 28, 2001 Stephen Dawes
@ ` Frank Carmickle
` Kirk Wood
` Scott Howell
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Frank Carmickle @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup@Braille. Uwo. Ca
At least one thing that this article mentioned was bull shit. You can't
spread a virus from windows to linux partitions when windows is the os
that is running. Unless of course someone has a way to mount linux type
partitions under win32. This sounds like a load of crap article to
me. They didn't mention any situations of where this happened. Sounds to
me like scare tactics. It isn't going to be able to write files until it
has root privileges on the linux machine. Bull shit I say bull f**king
shit!! Standard disclaimer goes. I do not know all and I am very
possibly wrong but none of this makes sense at all.
Frank Carmickle
phone: 412 761-9568
email: frankiec@dryrose.com
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* Re: FW: THE INFOWORLD SCOOP P.M. EDITION, Wednesday, March 28, 2001
` Frank Carmickle
@ ` Kirk Wood
` Scott Howell
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kirk Wood @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup@Braille. Uwo. Ca
I didn't see the article that Frnak mentioned, but MSNBC had an article
about the suposed virus that can infect both Linux and Windows. The first
thing I noticed is that only a single virus scanner company was
named. McAffee said they had heard rumors, but they haven't seen it. I
also checked Norton, and Computer Assosiates (Cheyenne) and neither has
any mention of this supposed virus.
The article explains that it is written in assembly bypassing operating
system specifics. But even my limited knowledge of the subject says there
are still problems. Certain headers must be in place to get by the OS
durring initial load.
I will take a wait and see attitude. But then again, I have never (even
once) launched a program inside Linux from email or something like
that. Since it would have to carry a file extension of like .com, .exe,
.scr or something to launch in winblow, it would seem suspect to try it in
Linux. Then again some dorks getting into linux might.
=======
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
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* Re: FW: THE INFOWORLD SCOOP P.M. EDITION, Wednesday, March 28, 2001
` Frank Carmickle
` Kirk Wood
@ ` Scott Howell
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Scott Howell @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup@Braille. Uwo. Ca
yeah baby! I agree. Looks like they've gone and stuck their peckers in it
this time. When the hell are people gonna get it right!
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> At least one thing that this article mentioned was bull shit. You can't
> spread a virus from windows to linux partitions when windows is the os
> that is running. Unless of course someone has a way to mount linux type
> partitions under win32. This sounds like a load of crap article to
> me. They didn't mention any situations of where this happened. Sounds to
> me like scare tactics. It isn't going to be able to write files until it
> has root privileges on the linux machine. Bull shit I say bull f**king
> shit!! Standard disclaimer goes. I do not know all and I am very
> possibly wrong but none of this makes sense at all.
>
>
> Frank Carmickle
> phone: 412 761-9568
> email: frankiec@dryrose.com
>
>
>
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