Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 19, 2006 04:25 PM
f that's it than how is this any more cross platform than anything else?
It is by being two programs in one. The linux version does not need wine. In one version, it is a Windows program with a Linux program inside (think self-extracting ZIP). It will infect Windows programs like any other infecting virus, but when it sees a Linux program, it will infect it with the Linux version of the virus.
Similarly, the Linux version is a Linux program with a Windows program inside. It will infect Linux programs normally, but if it sees a Windows program, it will infect it with the Windows version.
(Or does it not go Linux -> Windows?)
That's not a virus at all, that's a trojan
Nope. To be a trojan, it would have to pretend to be something else (Remember Troja? The horse pretending to be a gift, but really was the greek army). Destructive code pretending to be destructive code does not go into the category "trojan". Nothing wrong with destructive code, just look at rm, mkfs...
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Re:It's not a cross-platform binary
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 19, 2006 04:25 PMIt is by being two programs in one. The linux version does not need wine. In one version, it is a Windows program with a Linux program inside (think self-extracting ZIP). It will infect Windows programs like any other infecting virus, but when it sees a Linux program, it will infect it with the Linux version of the virus.
Similarly, the Linux version is a Linux program with a Windows program inside. It will infect Linux programs normally, but if it sees a Windows program, it will infect it with the Windows version.
(Or does it not go Linux -> Windows?)
That's not a virus at all, that's a trojan
Nope. To be a trojan, it would have to pretend to be something else (Remember Troja? The horse pretending to be a gift, but really was the greek army). Destructive code pretending to be destructive code does not go into the category "trojan". Nothing wrong with destructive code, just look at rm, mkfs...
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