brute force ssh attack
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed May 4 12:14:16 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>Well, so much for the "do not wory about viruses in Linux machines" stories...
>>>
>>
>>This is not a virus: it does not travel via email or the like. This is a
>>worm, and there are a few of those.
>
>
> I think you're got those the wrong way around. Worms can propagate
> without luser intervention, regular viruses can't. Consider for example
> the entire class of boot sector viruses, which used to be quite common.
> None of those could work without someone carelessly booting from an
> infected floppy. Similarly in this case, the virus can't propagate
> without someone (preferably root) executing an infected file.
>
> Paul.
Paul
I don't see what you said that's inconsistent with what I said. The
malware we're discussing arrived without the victim's cooperation.
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John
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