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Not sure why this made it on the HN frontpage. It seems its lacking any relevant information and is mostly some marketing for an antivirus vendor that tries to
by hannob 11y ago
Not sure why this made it on the HN frontpage.
It seems its lacking any relevant information and is mostly some marketing for an antivirus vendor that tries to tell Linux users they need antiviruses, too.
- weland 11y agoI just tried to look it up. Turns out the only announcements are from Dr. Web, a "famous" antivirus vendor, and techcrunch.com which quotes Dr. Web's announcement. No word on how it spreads. Also, unsurprisingly: > Once launched with administrator privileges, etc. If you do that, you kind of deserve to get infected...
- wila 11y agoExactly that. > Doctor Web security researchers presume that at least tens of users have already fallen victim to this Trojan. "presume" .. tens of users .. Right, a bit more details on the infection vector would have helped to properly validate the concerns. But when you start presuming and pull numbers out of a high hat I'm almost ready to discard it. The only thing we know now is that "something" needs to be run with admin privileges. Just make sure your backups are OK.