Re: new virus!

[Tesla Coil <tescoil@rtpro.net>]

Steven Pritchard alerted us that:

> Topic: Attack of the Tuxissa Virus
>
> After it has successfully reproduced, the virus begins the
> tricky process of upgrading the system to Linux.  First,
> the virus modifies AUTOEXEC.BAT so that the virus will be
> re-activated if the system crashes or is shut down while
> the upgrade is in process. Second, the virus downloads a
> stripped-down Slackware distribution, using a lengthy list
> of mirror sites to prevent the virus from overloading any
> one server.

This isn't really new.  Why, it's struck several friends' machines
in past months!  Apparently, there's a variety of strains installing
different distros...  : )


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