[mdlug] I tremble for my OS when I reflect that virus-writers are so frickin' devious

[Brian]

But there would be problems with binary compatibility so long as there
are several types of distros.  That is unless your willing to download
./configure && make install the attachment, in which case it may just
be natural selection :)

On 4/15/09, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> So my wife opens an email she really shouldn't have. At least she's
> running Thunderbird and not Outlook, but it still installs some crap and
> has popups coming up regularly on the screen. Of course, you can't get
> to antivirus stuff from that machine, even with Firefox - queries like
> that get redirected to random links.
>
>  Using the standard tools like Spybot and Ad-aware - downloaded from the
> Linux box downstairs - I seem to have killed it. But it did a 'clever'
> trick - it had reconfigured Firefox to use a proxy on localhost at port
> 7171. That's right, it was running its own HTTP proxy.
>
>  Eventually these schmucks are going to target Linux. Linux has *better*
> security than Windows (it'd be hard to be worse) but it's far from
> invulnerable. I really don't want to have to clean up crap like that on
> my Linux box. Oy.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                (313) 227-2317
>
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