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I've got a Worm in my Linux Box

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by mushroom, Mar 12, 2005.

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    Yes that's right I have a worm in one of my linux boxes and I don't know what to do with it.

    It's an e-mail worm called "Worm.SomeFool.P".

    How did I get this worm?
    Well I followed the instructions from my ISP, for some strange reason he likes to work on windows but uses FreeBSD for his servers.

    Anyhow he asked me to FTP a certain file "z1" from his server to my machine then to e-mail it to him as an attachment.

    Woops ........ his server would not accept my e-mail .. and I tried several times ..... some how this made him very happy.

    It turns out he just installed ClamAV on his mail server to slow or stop the spread of windows e-mail viruses and needed me to test it for him as he could not.

    NOW I have this little worm in my machine, it has done me no harm so I can't justify killing it,
    I can not send it back out in to the world to feed as all my e-mails get rejected,
    if I keep it it will starve as it can not feed in a Linux environment.
    So just what should I to do ?
     
    mushroom, Mar 12, 2005 IP
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    anthonycea Banned

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    Go on the linux forum and ask USAlug what to do, I hope you delete if from your box Mushroom for the sake of the internet users.
     
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    Have already posted it at http://usalug.org under Linux Humor and Jokes even though the facts are 100% true, it is still a joke.

    Viruses and Worms affect Linux users in that they consume bandwidth and affect the credibility of the net, so do all I can to neutralize them.

    I had also mentioned to my ISP that will all the firewalls going up that the malware writers would be using e-mail as a means of infection even more, so he installed AV on his mail server.
     
    mushroom, Mar 12, 2005 IP