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Security threats Toolkit

Story: Linux worm on the loose

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Posted by: Chris Rankin (Tuesday 8 November 2005, 10:10 PM)

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My Linux boxes are safe. But then, I'm not running *any* of the three flawed packages. In fact, I'm not sure that any desktop Linux user would be running these packages. And they would need to be running all three buggy packages to be vulnerable to this worm anyway.

I have looked into my crystal ball of the bl**^Wextremely obvious, and predict that this worm isn't going to cause a lot of problems.

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