brute force ssh attack
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Apr 27 22:54:44 UTC 2005
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:22:07PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> it also infects files in /bin as stated by symantic and as stated by
> Daniel. Thus it has some method of getting root privileges.
Nah, it just *tries* to infect files in /bin, and does if it happens to have
write privileges. Therefore: don't run as root, and only run trusted
programs with root privileges.
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