Re: [Sheflug] Re: Is this a hoax?

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Since viruses don't happen in GNU/Linux there's not much point in
> sending it here.

A very dangerous view point, and quite naive, IMHO. A virus could exist in
various ways either as a trojan that a user installs, a worm that spreads due
to a weakness in a program (witness the Morris worm of many years ago that
brought down many sites due to a flaw in sendmail).

Linux may be more inherently immune than Microsoft platforms, but it is not
100% immune.

Further discussion can be found be searching Google Groups for "Linux virus".
This thread seems to have a fair discussion, with related links (long! next
couple of lines as one URL):

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=81ue3i%24a2i%241%40news.urz.uni-
heidelberg.de&rnum=1

Chris...

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