brute force ssh attack

[John Summerfied]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>>>Well, so much for the "do not wory about viruses in Linux machines" stories...
>>>
>>
>>This is not a virus: it does not travel via email or the like. This is a 
>>worm, and there are a few of those.
> 
> 
> I think you're got those the wrong way around. Worms can propagate
> without luser intervention, regular viruses can't. Consider for example
> the entire class of boot sector viruses, which used to be quite common.
> None of those could work without someone carelessly booting from an
> infected floppy. Similarly in this case, the virus can't propagate
> without someone (preferably root) executing an infected file.
> 
> Paul.

Paul
I don't see what you said that's inconsistent with what I said. The 
malware we're discussing arrived without the victim's cooperation.



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