Re: virus/worm hacker attack

From: ras2 (removethis@gmx.net)
Date: 09/15/02


From: ras2 <removethis@gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:13:54 GMT

On 2002-09-14 18:49:10 GMT, e5z8652 <e5z8652@mail.com>
 wrote in <pan.2002.09.14.10.49.09.404074.639@mail.com>:
> On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 01:28:45 -0800, Kasper Dupont wrote:
>> How many Linux viruses does those scanners recognize?
>
> At least a few:
>
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.slapper.worm.html

A recent F-prot definition says "Unix shell: 31 viruses and Trojans" and
"Unix: 99 viruses and Trojans".

That includes rootkits and other such things, as far as I can determine,
so it's difficult to know how many actual viruses it recognizes.

-R.



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