__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Tuesday 02 January 2007 19:48 \__
> Doug Mentohl wrote:
>
>> "The most promiscuous. This title goes without doubt to Gatt.A. This
>> malicious code can infect any platform that it is run on: Windows,
>> Linux, etc"
>>
>> http://www.net-security.org/virus_news.php?id=724
>>
>> Affected platforms:
>>
>> Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
>>
>> "This infection method makes Gatt.A work properly only on Windows
>> computers, whereas IDA is supported by other platforms such as Linux"
>>
>> http://snipurl.com/16dz1
>>
>
http://www.pandasoftware.com/com/virus_info/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=122900&sitepanda=empresas
>
>
> Nice article... but after a ton of googling... I have yet to find a report
> of an actual linux box being infected. In fact, of the virus databases I've
> found (YOU BET... source code included) there's no entries for Gatt.a.
>
> Which makes be believe that this may be some proof of concept infection or
> it's such a trivial problem that no ones (linux client/server) ever been
> infected with it.
>
> Please prove me wrong and better yet, a url for the Gatt.a sourcecode would
> be very enlightening. I have yet to undestand on a windows executable can
> infect a linux installation.
Have a look at Novell.com. I hear they incorporate all sorts of codes into
their 'mixed source' framework. Mono, 'Open' XML, OpenOffice VB macros...
Not to worry about the legal timebombs. Novell are safe... they made a deal
to cover their 'balance-sheet liability'... for 5 years... :-S
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