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Re: mail trojans in linux



sure download a vbs interperter for linux and use the magic key option of
the kernel to execute it.

then you'll have your own opensource linux mail torjan;)

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:

> > Hi
> >
> > I saw the following news item in linux today:
> >
> > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-07-008-20-SC
> >
> > The story (from VNUnet) is about a new linux trojan. A quote from it:
> >
> > The so-called Remote Shell Trojan spreads through email as well as
> > replicating itself across the infected system
> >
> > Is there any linux mail client that doesn't make it hard to execute
> > executable attachments from mail messages? (and if so: why is anybody
> > using this mail client?)
> >
> > If not: are such trojas an issue at all?
> >
> 
> 
> I believe that such Trojan might be an issue, depending on the users behavior.
> A simple example would be to send you a game which will just increase the load
> of your system, without doing any real work. Although in most cases it is less
> harmful then replacing some executable with another, it is still annoying.
> I guess that more damage then this can be made, even on user space.
> In short, a UNIX machine can not replace a cautious user: Users should take
> care of the executables they are running and, (of course?) not run as root.
> 
> 
> > [ Please avoid making this an ms-bashing thread. I hope linux program
> > authors have learned from the design mistakes of Apple and MS with respect
> > to this specific issue. A mail client should allow the user to "view" a
> > document, not "open" it. Or at least it should make a very clear
> > seperation between the two. The basic design of apple, extended by MS to
> > mail clients, does not have this distinction. OTOH unix has long had
> > mailcap. ]
> >
> > --
> > Tzafrir Cohen
> > mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> >
> >
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> --
> 
> 	Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
> 
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