Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jon Tombs <> | Subject | Re: [masq] 1st virus in Linux :( (fwd) | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:30:21 +0100 (MET) |
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Kai Henningsen said:
> A virus is something that infects binaries. A trojan is something that > mimics something else. This is a virus.
bliss, moves the binary to /tmp, and then mimics the binary be forking itself before running the real binary. By your own definition this is a trojan.
A virus would need to modify the binary, this is little more than what you can do with a shell script called ls.
Jon.
-- Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>
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