Linux version of MyDoom
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robinturnerSolri News Agency
Linux users have been feeling left out of the recent MyDoom phenomenon. The recent expansion of Linux from geeks' bedrooms to government departments has left system administrators receiving mails from users complaining that they clicked on the MyDoom email attachment but nothing happened.
However, a variant of MyDoom tailored to the Linux environment has recently been spotted. The text of the email reads as follows.
Your message was undeliverable. To avoid this problem in the future, please follow these steps.
1. Open emacs and type the following:
#!/bin/bash
wget http://www.sco.com
wget http://www.microsoft.com
2. Save the file and make it executable
3. Set a cron job to run it every minute
A spokesperson from Symantech said "This is a very dangerous worm. Many Linux users will run anything that looks like a bash script, just to see what happens."
Linux users have been feeling left out of the recent MyDoom phenomenon. The recent expansion of Linux from geeks' bedrooms to government departments has left system administrators receiving mails from users complaining that they clicked on the MyDoom email attachment but nothing happened.
However, a variant of MyDoom tailored to the Linux environment has recently been spotted. The text of the email reads as follows.
Your message was undeliverable. To avoid this problem in the future, please follow these steps.
1. Open emacs and type the following:
#!/bin/bash
wget http://www.sco.com
wget http://www.microsoft.com
2. Save the file and make it executable
3. Set a cron job to run it every minute
A spokesperson from Symantech said "This is a very dangerous worm. Many Linux users will run anything that looks like a bash script, just to see what happens."
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