Survival Time for Unpatched Systems Cut by Half

[Brian Densmore]

So I guess the pertinent question is, are Linux IM clients susceptible 
to this kind of <spellingnazi> virii </spellingnazi>? That is of course
assuming some enterprising young cracker writes one for Linux systems?
Of course if I was a cracker, I'd write cross-platform virii, and have friendly
download pop-ups letting the user choose the proper poison pellet. 

Brian Densmore

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monty J. Harder 
> 
> "djgoku" <djgoku at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I read another article today in PCWORLD mag, that said they thought
> > that a new viri that would use IM clients and be able to spread in
> 
>   <Grammatiknazi>'viri' is plural, where the article 'a' 
> indicates singular
> number.  Perhaps the words 'kind of' were omitted?</Grammatiknazi>
> 
> > seconds instead of minutes or hours. Kinda of crazy to think of that
> 
>   About a year ago we had an IM virus going about work.  This 
> thing opens up
> IM windows to everyone on your Buddy List saying to check out 
> a web page,
> the name of which suggests that Usama Bin Laden had just been 
> captured.  If
> you click on the link, you go to what looks like a news site 
> that requires
> you to download a plugin before you can access the content on 
> the page.  ...