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Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux?

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On Tue, December 12, 2017 8:00 am, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
...
> That said, this kinds of attacks are so complex that (as in the
> case of Stuxnet) it possibly takes the resources of a nation-state
> (or, in this case, probably two) to set something up like that.
> OTOH things are pretty fluid these days, so I wouldn't count on
> that staying the same for a long time.
>
> So to sum up -- you'll have to read up on many things to even
> understand an answer to your question. My current answer would
> be (to some high, but unspecified degree of probability) "No",
> but that might change whithin the next couple o'years.
>
...

If a nation-state wanna play games with you, there are a lot of more
important things you should really care about...

ps:

ELF --> PE infection on FAT/FAT32/NTFS partition on same disk, unencrypted
(quite easy)
PE --> ELF infection on ext? partition on same disk, unencrypted (bit more
of work)

cheers.

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is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-12 01:00 +0100
  Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-12-12 03:50 +0100
    Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2017-12-12 10:50 +0100
      Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-12 11:10 +0100
        Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2017-12-12 11:20 +0100
          Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-12 11:30 +0100
        Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? "x9p" <debian@x9p.org> - 2017-12-13 01:30 +0100
          Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-12-13 09:20 +0100
            Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? "x9p" <debian@x9p.org> - 2017-12-13 12:40 +0100
            Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Jeroen Mathon <jeroenmathonmac@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 13:20 +0100
              Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-12-13 17:50 +0100
                Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-13 18:40 +0100
                Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? "x9p" <debian@x9p.org> - 2017-12-14 02:50 +0100
            Re: is there any Windows virus that affect linux? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-12-13 17:40 +0100

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