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Copyright © 2002 by Alexander Bartolich
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Revision All warranty and guarantee clauses become null and void upon payment of invoice. | 2002-06-23 | |
Big modifications in The magic of the Elf. Finished The stub revisited. Major internal changes. Spreading to other platforms is near. |
This document describes how to write parasitic file viruses infecting ELF executables on Linux/i386. Though it contains a lot of source code, no actual virus is included. Every mentioned infection method is accompanied with a practical guide to detection.
This is work in progress. Expected outcome is convincing evidence that popular distributions contain everything necessary to develop, detect and control viruses. And that it requires considerable cooperation or outright negligent behavior to give viruses any foothold.
Viruses are not a threat to Linux!
A quote from Rick's Rant on anti-virus software:
The problem with answering this question is that those asking it know only OSes where viruses, trojan-horse programs, worms, nasty Java scripts, ActiveX controls with destructive payloads, and ordinary misbehaved applications are a constant threat to their computing. Therefore, they refuse to believe Linux could be different, no matter what they hear. And yet it is.
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