[vox] Linux viruses?

Marianne Waage yamara at plush.org
Sun Jun 13 11:31:00 PDT 2004


Bill Kendrick said:
>Noticed this article on my newsticker just now:
> Antivirus vendors await first Linux worm
> http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/News/1155836
>However, one line in the article piqued my curiosity:
> Symantec reported that it has found three Linux viruses in the wild
> since the start of 2004.
>Anyone have any references to these three?

I always wondered what would happen if you got a virus through something
emulated like Outlook under wine. There was some other program that let
you run MS products under linux but I don't recall the name now.

-yams


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