FYI: ransomware virus on Linux (From FreeBSD Users mailing list)

[J.Witvliet at mindef.nl]

Cassify that urban myth, if you make your system vulberable, then you have much more "issues" than just this.

Furthermore, I wouldn't give that particular list much credit as a reliable source when it deals with linux.
They do more unfounded linux -bashing than the people from Microsoft.


-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of jd1008
Sent: vrijdag 20 november 2015 3:25
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: FYI: ransomware virus on Linux (From FreeBSD Users mailing list)



On 11/19/2015 06:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:27:06 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
>
>> You might wish to read this thread online. Does not look terribly 
>> scary, but it is good to be aware of the piece of SW causing it.
> And what is "the piece of SW causing it"?
>
> And what do you mean by stating:"You might wish to read this thread 
> online?". I read your post using a newsreader. Am I reading it online?
>
> And BTW, I do not actually see a thread but you only single post.
>
> I think you couldn't make your post less clear than you did. Takes a 
> lot of effort, I guess. :-)
>
> Thank you.
>

Try
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2015-November/subject.html
ans scroll down the page looking for the subject line:
ransomware virus on Linux

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