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FWIW, the Morris worm was a Unix worm from the 80's. It's not quite on par with the malware you'd see roaming around on Linux machines today, if such malware d
by cantankerous 14y ago
FWIW, the Morris worm was a Unix worm from the 80's. It's not quite on par with the malware you'd see roaming around on Linux machines today, if such malware does exist and is, in fact, roaming around.
The existence of the Morris worm doesn't really say much about the resilience of today's Linux to worms or viruses.
- nl 14y agoI'm not sure what your point is. Yes, malware can be a lot more sophisticated now than it was in 1988. In many cases it doesn't need to be though. For example, there was a comparatively recent case of a botnet infecting Linux-based routers which lacked front end authentication[2](!!). Exploitable software runs on many platforms. The existence of the Michelangelo virus[1] doesn't really say much about the resilience of today's Windows to worms or viruses. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(computer_virus) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(computer_virus) [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/325434/ http://lwn.net/Articles/325434/