Re: New Linux Trojan

[Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>]

If what Qualys says is true, this is a Trojan horse/virus/worm. However, 
I'd hardly believe that such a thing could propagate very far or very 
well, given that the attachment would have to be opened -- intentionally 
-- by a user with root privilege to infect the system. And Linux users 
tend to be much more suspicious of binary attachments than Windows users. 
Is this a real threat or a PR stunt?

--Brett Glass


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