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Re: [LUG] Linux Trojan Raises Malware Concerns - might be of interest

 

On 14/06/10 11:34, Roland Tarver wrote:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/198686/linux_trojan_raises_malware_concerns.html

Best wishes
roly :-)


As they mention here, the .tar.gz file wasn't signed with a PGP key (is it possible to sign .tar.gz files?).

I guess it proves that you have to be weary about what you download from external sites. I guess even getting stuff from say the Ubuntu PPA archives could still leave you at risk if someone packaged something nasty up as part of a program.

It's possibly not as bad as some of the security flaws of Windows but still not good, at least for those folks running that particular IRC server.

Rob

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