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Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads?
From: Alexander Klimov <alserkli () inbox ru>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:51:09 +0200 (IST)
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Adam Pal wrote:
i see no difference between the usual Windows-user and the linux-user who stays logged in as root on his KDE and surfs on the web (yes, such behavioral patterns exists *G* ), so from this point of view, in certain circumstances linux viruses propagate similar to windows-viruses.
Probably they can, but do they really? Consider, for example, an attack described by F-secure <http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001406.html>. When you open the attached PDF file, you actually get a real PDF document with a relevant statement. However, this is not a normal PDF document. It contains a modified version of a PDF-Encode vulnerability to exploit Adobe Acrobat when the document is opened. The exploit silently drops and runs a file called C:\Program Files\Update\winkey.exe. This is a keylogger that collects and sends everything typed on the affected machine Is it possible to write a keylogger for Linux and construct such an attack? Sure. Are where enough Linux users to justify the cost of development? No! And, by the way, almost for sure an exploit against Adobe Acrobat will not work with xpdf, plus there is a good chance that an attack developed for Red Hat will not work on Debian (or vice versa). -- Regards, ASK
Current thread:
- File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Simon Jolle sjolle (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Alexander Klimov (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Adam Pal (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Alexander Klimov (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mark Laczin (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Orlin Gueorguiev (Mar 28)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Adam Pal (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Alexander Klimov (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? brabo (Mar 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? hibbard (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Simon Jolle sjolle (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Thomas Jespersen (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 27)
- RE: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Nazeem Jansen (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 26)