Strange virus/worm Win32:Crypt-VB

[Darknet]

I ran one antivirus scanner and it found Win32:Crypt-VB. Norton sits merrilly not noticing a thing. On the virus list, Symantec says it knows about it so why didnt Norton discover it first?

 

[LazyLion]

Norton sucks really really badly. I hate it.

Use another Virus Scanner to clean it. See if you can get a copy of Hiren's Boot CD or Emergency Boot CD to try to clean it.

 

[Big Kriss]

Oh,thats simply the virus name for Nortons !!! Not to worry....

 

[kronoSX]

Oh,thats simply the virus name for Nortons !!! Not to worry....

 

[.Froot.]

I have that virus. no wait I can't. I have Linux.......

<It takes a ### OS to get a ### virus>

 

[Slooth]

I have that virus. no wait I can't. I have Linux.......

<It takes a ### OS to get a ### virus>

Has anyone ever bothered with writting a virus for linux?

 

[.Froot.]

Has anyone ever bothered with writting a virus for linux?

There are a couple. But the whole thing is, a virus is a program made to exploit weaknesses in systems. With Windows, thats easy. But try and find weaknesses in Linux... thanks to the community input there are little weaknesses and if one is found it is fixed pretty quickly.

 

[noswal]

As I understand, its because a virus would have to run as root to work

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-645966.html