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- schtick01101, on 08/10/2008, -9/+257What is this .exe file you speak of?
- Rolcol, on 08/11/2008, -2/+214That computer is infected with a defective user.
- wontstoptalking, on 08/11/2008, -19/+162Ubuntu > Vista.
Mac > Ubuntu.
Vista > Mac.
Wait... - mockidol, on 08/11/2008, -4/+114I fix computers for a living and recently had to explain to a man that his iMac did not have viruses. He insisted that he did though:
"That there XPAntivirus web e-mail thingy says I had 63 of them darn viriis." - eraccusa, on 08/10/2008, -8/+102Funny! I find it hilarious that these online "virus scanners" exist. More often than not they are trying to sell one something for a Microsoft based operating system. Usually, anti-malware cruft. :)
- Cheezeburgar, on 08/11/2008, -11/+103Who's dick do I have to suck to get a mirror around here?
- inactive, on 08/10/2008, -87/+156ubuntu > vista
- trogdoor, on 08/11/2008, -2/+70"unsigned int i;
for (i = 1; i > 0; i++)"
That actually won't create an infinite loop, it will loop 4,294,967,295 times then rollover to zero so "i > 0" will be false and the loop will terminate. - darkervisions, on 08/11/2008, -9/+72Mirror? I guess the linux viruses got to it.
- samanathon, on 08/10/2008, -13/+74"This confused me a little seeing i was on my computer running the latest Ubuntu release which as we all know cannot get viruses!"
ORLY?! - adriaaan, on 10/12/2008, -0/+55A common ID-10-T problem in otherwords.
- Natnie, on 08/11/2008, -5/+50The new scissors paper rock?!
- snek, on 08/11/2008, -5/+47This is just as funny as Ubuntu getting through the Windows Genuine Advantage check ;)
The problem is though, that people actually believe this crap they see online. A friend of mine called me the other day about a popup he had seen claiming he had a virus. The sad thing is this guy has the most amazing computers since he was 12 or something, and he still fell for the stupid popup!! I told him I couldn't believe he fell for it.. It seriously depresses me to have to deal with people like that. If you have something for 17 years you'd expect the person to know SOMETHING about it.. - joemofo214, on 08/11/2008, -6/+45Sometimes in Ubuntu, I download well known virus givers in wine, and watch them attack. Its lulzworthy
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -3/+41a lot of people insist that they cannot get viruses because someone told them that. I wrote a linux virus over a decade ago, as did some other people. They do exist, and its not that difficult to do this in a way that will enable you to infect what you can, silently ignore what you cant, and wait until root (or in some cases someone with gid of bin or something) to finally execute a file that lets it propagate further. The elf file format makes it easy to add in new segments without overwriting any data as well.
At least some others appear to understand that linux can get viruses, that viruses (not trojans, worms or other stuff but actual viruses) can and do exist and have for a long time for linux specifically, more generically for anything that uses a similar method of doing things. - Mewchu11, on 08/11/2008, -13/+50unsigned int i;
for (i = 1; i > 0; i++) - inactive, on 08/11/2008, -7/+42http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/%7Eaxel/bliss/ write up about the bliss virus which affected linux, solaris, bsd, and others (and yes it can be adapted for osx, at least on the bsd side but probably on the other side). This would actually modify binaries and replicate that way. They do exist, people that insist they dont or that they cant be infected because that is what someone told them really should rethink who they get advice from.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3307459975. ... talks about how in 2003 there were about 100 known viruses for linux.
Really the information is out there, and just because some people choose to ignore it does not mean its not there, or that its not real. sure the person writing the article that this digg page is about may not have known, but some of the comments indicate that people are digging down posts where people claim there are viruses for linux, and generally trying to keep the ignorance flowing. - motang, on 08/10/2008, -3/+38LOL...thats a good one! Sure glad he did the scan now he can immunize those infected files and feel all safe. ;-)
- kinerry, on 08/11/2008, -3/+36apparently the mirrors are all linux and have viruses
- tikibaloni, on 08/11/2008, -7/+39MIRROR???
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………………………..¯””^~~~~^” - mickstephenson, on 08/11/2008, -5/+37do you have banshee or fspot?
try this
mono /usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe - cakerun, on 08/11/2008, -0/+30Problem exists between keyboard and chair...
- trogdoor, on 08/11/2008, -0/+29You really think they're selling *anti*-malware cruft ?
- emerica126, on 08/11/2008, -4/+323:15:02 - The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
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3:19:00 - website still down - freexe, on 08/11/2008, -0/+27But don't think like apt discourage people from ever needing to install anything that might be a virus. In windows you download and install .exes all the time. I have had to install 3 programs in linux, everything else is in apt.
- Lewie, on 08/11/2008, -0/+27"Can't run Duke Nukem on a calculator."
Maybe not, but how about Doom?
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/405/ ... - Tishiablo, on 08/11/2008, -2/+27while(1)
I win. - gbhall, on 08/11/2008, -6/+31Mirror?
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -2/+26Calculator > DOS
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -5/+28His Ubuntu server has just died. Poor thing.
Mr. Ubuntu: 450 viruses found!
Ms. Fedora: Should we fix it now before it brings our home server down?
Mr. Ubuntu: Nah! Not before I post this to digg. - meinrosebud, on 08/11/2008, -3/+25Yeah, I have some land for you to buy in Nigeria too!
- MajesticBeaver, on 08/11/2008, -0/+22i dunno about you but when i see an article on digg that i wanna read and the server is down i digg it so i can find it later with relative ease and in hopes that a mirror has been posted so.....yea...
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -23/+44http://tinyurl.com/5qtejj
- thailand1972, on 08/11/2008, -1/+20Whose, not who's.
- trogdoor, on 08/11/2008, -1/+19You don't even need to call mono, just "/usr/lib/f-spot/f-spot.exe" will do, and executing a .exe directly is just so much more disturbing.
- buddamus, on 08/11/2008, -4/+22Mirror?
- Azerael, on 08/11/2008, -3/+21Pictures of kittens > Mathematics
- natmaster, on 08/11/2008, -11/+28Uh, Linux can get viruses, just not the kind that attack Windows machines. Linux is very popular in the webserver world, and as such many people write viruses to attack it.
- Carburetor, on 08/11/2008, -8/+25They could at least say he has 42.
- qbthemc, on 08/11/2008, -1/+18Damn I am ugly. :(
- arcade, on 08/11/2008, -1/+18bysin: That's not neccessarily true. sizeof(unsigned int) depends on the size of the integer on your platform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_variable_types_and_ ... - inactive, on 08/11/2008, -1/+17Linux, as can any OS - get viri. Fortunately the open model usually heaps block exploits very quickly.
- sarchosis, on 08/11/2008, -10/+26Vista > Mac would be like Paper > Rock; rock's fine everybody! No structural damage.
- Dyyhpys, on 08/11/2008, -1/+17lol, did you even read it?
- RandyGandy, on 08/11/2008, -2/+18Abacus > Calculator
- mickstephenson, on 08/11/2008, -7/+23Ok so I have proved that the .exe extension is actually in use in linux for programs written in mono/C# yet I am being dugg down and people are continuing to digg him up. Ignorance is bliss eh?
- oobuntu, on 08/11/2008, -2/+17theoretically you should be able to get them using wine too.
although i don't know anyone who surfs using ie under wine for fun. - LethalJizzle, on 08/11/2008, -0/+14Getting on with your life > Starting another OS argument.
Although they are quite entertaining. - waydee, on 08/11/2008, -2/+15Untested?
If Linux/UNIX security and resilience wasn't so well known and well tested it wouldn't be the dominant web server operating system that it is - Linux on the desktop is another matter of course but the reason UNIX-like OS's are consistently more secure than their competitors is down to the fundamental design of the operating system and the tried & tested applications that run on it that benefit from their largely open source code that allows bugs and vulnerabilities to be identified and patched far more easily than with closed, proprietary applications like you see on Windows.
I'm no digg style Ubuntu fanboy but to suggest the strength of UNIX-like operating systems especially Linux are untested is completely wrong. - Disease, on 08/11/2008, -2/+15Nerds
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