5 May
2000
5 May
'00
4:47 p.m.
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Gareth Knight wrote:
This made me think of the possibility that the I Love
You virus could affect
other systems. Does the virus only rename files on the host drive or can it
spread to a hardfile mounted on Windows desktop or network connections?
If you've got Samba running on a unix server, and a Samba-exported
filesystem is mounted on some lame Windows box, and a lame Windows user
decides to activate this Microsoft-enabled virus, then sure, Microsoft
lameness can infect non-MS systems to some extent.
Cheers,
Doug