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Re: Re: Virus alert...

At 02:10 PM 12/13/2000 +0530, Amarendra GODBOLE wrote:


As to Linux, these viruses can do nothing, they are as quite as puppies ;-)

AFAIK, there is a single Unix worm known to human beings, someone correct me
if I am wrong.
There is more than one worm, but the most famous of them all was RTM's worm [1].
There are also some Linux viruses known, notably Bliss [2] but they are currently just lab curiosities. That might change, though. 

Udhay

[1] http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/morris-worm.html
[2] http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-linux/1998-Jan/0398.html

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