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H_TeXMeX_H:
Just got this in the mail ... good thing I didn't unsubscribe to the AVERT newsletter

http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=5752&pagtype=all

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_139173.htm

Refalm:
Anyone tried ClamAV yet?

piratePenguin:
Linus Torvalds showed that the virus doesn't work with Linux 2.6.16, and released a patch for Linux so it does, lol.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/04/18/2046203.shtml
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/1941251

Jack2000:

--- Quote ---and released
--- Quote ---a patch for Linux so it does, lol.
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he released a pach to allow the virus to work !??
wtf
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H_TeXMeX_H:

--- Quote ---  Linus Torvalds has had an opportunity to examine the testing and analysis by Hans-Werner Hilse which we reported on yesterday, and has blessed it as being correct. The reason that the virus is not propagating itself in the latest kernel versions is due to a bug in how GCC handles specific registers in a particular system call. He has coded a patch for the kernel to allow the virus to work on even the latest Linux kernel.
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Well, I suppose it makes some sense ... if you fix the gcc bug the virus can get in ...

I just tried clamav and it seems to work very fast ... it's command line and quite simple to use.

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