Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:05:32 -0500 (EST) | From | "Seth M. Landsman" <> | Subject | Re: Bliss virius |
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On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Timothy Peters wrote:
> I have one or two idears on this > > a) add a patch to the a.out of elf loader that can detect if the virus > is present and prevent it from running
That stinks of kernel bloat ... What if, under Windows or DOS, everytime you ran an executable, McAfee's automagically came up and ran a scan. Perhaps having such a thing specifically for BLISS wouldn't be bad, but what happens when there are a thousand virii for Linux? Remember that BLISS is only a proof of concept, it shows that Linux virii *CAN* exist. Now that this is out, there will be a hundred by April, a thousand by next year. This is a bad precedent to set ...
> b) develope a free virus scanner for linux that can detect viri like > bliss and allert the operator > > c)stress the need for good security
Much better alternatives. McAfee has one, but it chokes when you run it from / recursively, b/c it doesn't play well with symlinks ...
\begin{SOAPBOX} What it comes down to is the lack of security. A unix operating system is very, very secure if it is maintained correctly to be secure. Too many people believe they are secure b/c they are running a unix operating system, even though they are always logged in as root and don't know what 'sudo' does ... \end{SOAPBOX}
-Seth
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