cool! a linux virus!

[curtybob]

I don't pay much attention, so this is the first I have seen, and thought it was worth noting. Don't worry, It is the symantec website.

[smiley]

Neat, but again it probably won't even come close to being widespread (Number of infections: 0 - 49) and all it does is delete the files in your home folder... not even replicating. But interesting nevertheless.

[curtybob]

yeah, looks as if no one is safe! and I have a knoppix CD on the way! but i would guess that would be immune...?

[smiley]

Yep, the most it could do under knoppix is wipe out your home folder in your RAM disk.. hehe...

[curtybob]

I ain't got a clue. but, give me a few weeks, and if me are not retarded, then I an are probably could maybe to figure it out!

looks like that was a bad game translation.
"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US." Those guys were probably from goobertown, AR too!

[beeboy]

Knoppix is neat to play with but remember any changes you make while in it are reversed when you exit.

[curtybob]

wonder if you can run it in a dvd drive, and keep a cd/rw handy and save settings that way? oh well, i'll find out more about it soon. I may wind up with bald spots on the sides of my head, but eventually i'll figure something out.

[smiley]

I believe that there's an option in Knoppix to save your configuration, I do not remember where though...

[curtybob]

when my copy comes in( hopefully any day now) i will try to find if the setting is there, and post it if i do find it. thanks for the info.

[Protocol Droid]

no virus-proof system exists. A virus might in knoppix still might be able to hit the boot sector.

[smiley]

But the chances of him getting such a virus... but I see what you mean though, linux is safer but definitely not completely virus-proof.