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A Year Ago: McAfee finds Linux virus
News McAfee claims to have detected the first known virus to attack the Linux operating system. Called Bliss, the virus is important because it is the first to attack Linux, a freeware variant of Unix that is often used in Web site administration.
[February 10, 1998, 8:57]
Experts react to 'Chinese Linux virus'
News The debate over whether a virus could infect and seriously affect Linux has gathered momentum with leading advocates of the open source operating system conceding that clever malicious code could damage the system.
[January 28, 2000, 9:50]
Assembler virus spells trouble for Linux
Talkback To conclude the upgraded security profiles on Linux will make the chance of virus infection smaller. The approach with virus scanners has always been to know what is bad. E.g.when your office program starts formatting your disk because of a macro...
[April 10, 2006, 12:44]
Linux gains virus armour
Talkback There were no Linux worms/viruses for 2003/2004. Previous Linux worms/viruses were extremely ineffective. This is not very necessary but more security is always welcome.
[June 7, 2004, 20:33]
McAfee finds first known Linux virus
News Called Bliss, the virus is important because it is the first to attack Linux, a freeware variant of Unix that is often used in Web site administration. UNIX flavours have always been considered difficult to infect because administration rights are...
[February 10, 1997, 11:15]
Five years ago: McAfee finds first known Linux virus
News Called Bliss, the virus is important because it is the first to attack Linux, a freeware variant of Unix that is often used in Web site administration. UNIX flavours have always been considered difficult to infect because administration rights are...
[February 8, 2002, 6:01]
Linux gains virus armour
Talkback Yawn! Yet still another so-called technology from Intel that will supposedly end all viruses, piracy, and all other ills, just like the serial number did.
[June 7, 2004, 16:14]
Linux gains virus armour
Talkback The NX code is an AMD64 specific option. Intel processors have not (yet) got this part of the chip enabled.
[June 8, 2004, 14:08]
Five years ago: McAfee finds first known Linux virus
Talkback In the June 2004 of Linux Format magazine (LXF54)(www.linuxformat.co.uk) on page 51 is an insert discussing this same subject and they say that MacFee was about a year late in talking about the Bliss virus, which was not the first but actually the...
[August 3, 2004, 4:05]
Assembler virus spells trouble for Linux
Talkback Rebuttal: The Case of the Non-viral Virus: http://tinyurl.com/ngwba The article's caption and insinuations the proof of concept could infect any linux machine is just plain wrong. Being written in assembly code means that even if it is run by the...
[April 13, 2006, 14:48]
Assembler virus spells trouble for Linux
Talkback Linux users tend to run email and web browsers as non privileged users. The likelihood of finding a binary file an ordinary user can write to under Linux is vanishingly small. It can't get round file permissions though.
[April 10, 2006, 12:14]
Assembler virus spells trouble for Linux
Talkback Whoo is the creep responsible .put a price on his head before it gets any futher advanced .
[April 11, 2006, 17:33]
Assembler virus spells trouble for Linux
News Virus writers have crafted another example of malicious software that can infect computers running Windows or Linux. The virus was written in assembler code and is limited, as it only infects files in the current directory, Kaspersky said on Friday...
[April 10, 2006, 9:05]
Linux gains virus armour
News Linux seller Red Hat and chipmaker Intel released prototype Linux software this week to support a security technology designed to curtail the spread of viruses. On Wednesday, Red Hat programmer Ingo Molnar announced a Linux patch for NX support...
[June 7, 2004, 9:10]
F-Secure gives Linux an antivirus injection
Talkback Virii are a different issue altogether, and while some have claimed to have created a genuine Linux virus in a lab, this kind of a creation would have little success infecting real-world machines due to a number of factors relating to binary...
[March 25, 2004, 21:24]
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.6 for Linux Mail Server
White Papers Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.6 for Linux Mail Server (Kaspersky Anti-Virus or the application) provides anti-virus processing of mail traffic and file systems of servers running the Linux or FreeBSD operating systems, and using the Sendmail, Postfix...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Linux viruses from China predicts Russian expert
News A Russian anti-virus expert has warned that an influx of viruses targeted at the Linux operating system (OS) is on its way courtesy of hackers in China. Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus in Moscow, says the increasing popularity...
[January 24, 2000, 13:51]
Bagle and Mytob evolve again
Talkback There seem to be a lot of misconception in the industry that Linux is virus free. Linux can be just as vulnerable as other operating systems, so please, have your preventive measures in place and drop the virus free environment.
[June 2, 2005, 12:11]
Microsoft trials licence-checking programme
Talkback A.write a virus/worm for Linux and annoy 7 people Virus/Worm creators are after the 'biggest bang' causing as much trouble as possible, so do they B.write a virus worm for windows and annoy 90% of the computer using population?
[September 22, 2004, 15:21]
Sophos founder: Mac viruses are spreading
News Hruska's comments were made just weeks after an OpenOffice macro-virus, which is capable of infecting Mac OS, Linux and Windows, was discovered. It is important to realise that there is no magic in Linux from a virus point of view.
[June 11, 2007, 9:25]
