Subject: Re: Bliss Virus (fwd) From: o.r.c@p.e.l.l.c.h.i.i.l.u.s (david parsons) Date: 1997/02/07 Message-Id: <5dglfa$9rj@pell.pell.chi.il.us> Sender: owner-Linux-Kernel@vger.rutgers.edu X-Reply-To: orc@pell.chi.il.us References: X-Hdr-Sender: o.r.c@p.e.l.l.c.h.i.i.l.u.s Comment: email address space-Expanded to deter spam. Organization: Lust corrodes my body X-Env-Sender: owner-Linux-Kernel-Outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Newsgroups: linux.dev.kernel In article , Andrew E. Mileski wrote: >> The Bliss virus is currently a Linux binary-infecting virus. >> Unfortunately, please do not feel your safe. > >...unless you aren't stupid and only login as root for system admin, >and don't run executables blindly, etc., etc., etc., ... > >Basically, if you get bitten by Bliss (or any nasty program), you >probably deserved it. This is a hard way to learn a lesson, but >some people need to be taught using a baseball bat "attitude adjuster". Given the choice between the right thing and the easy thing, people will tend to pick the easy thing, particularly when it comes to something like a computer. In a sick way, I'm somewhat pleased to see these reports, and not just because I'm making a living writing Linux antiviral products for McAfee; if the malicious fuckwits of the world think that Linux is popular enough to scribble graffiti over, that means it's actually making it in the non-hobbyist world. (And this is ANOTHER argument for something like the GGI; if you don't have to be root to run doom, it's just a little bit harder for an enterprising young virus to get in and fuck with the system.) ____ david parsons \bi/ Don't make the utopian mistake of assuming everyone \/ thinks just like you do.