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Security watchers have discovered a virus strain that compromises VMware virtual machines as well as infecting Mac OS X and Windows computers and Windows Mobile devices. It demonstrates previously unseen capabilities in the process. The Crisis malware typically arrives in a Java archive file (.jar) and is typically installed …
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Err
"It demonstrates previous unseen capabilities in the process."
No it really does not. Spreading between differing OS's is not new, Dropping via the web using social engineering is not new or key-logging, Rootkit install, killing AV's or pretty much everything else listed.
In-fact I can still remember the first publicly recorded worm that could run unmodified on both Win and Linux boxes written by a member of the 29a. Sorry but having the Binary’s for three differing OS's is not really new or novel either.
This is clearly a Trojan Horse, as the first thing you need to do is to enter the system password. But yeah, let's sell MacOSX virus scanners for the Total-O-Bozos to protect them from themselves.
Surely Symantec, Kaspersky and M$ pay with nice advertising on the site for this Bull$hit news.
Can it break out of a virtual machine?
Can it be stopped from getting onto a dormant virtual machine if the VM's virtual disk is encrypted?
I ask as a domestic user who is intending to use a VM for internet browsing, as an extra safeguard against nasties. I would say it is actually for a friend who might visit dodgy websites, but you lot will just say 'A friend. Yeah right, we believe you'
Nothing pisses me off more than on a forum when you ask
"I have problem xyz with Windows application abc"
And some tosspot writes "get application xyz instead" or "get a Mac/Linux".
That's like saying "I have a problem with my petrol Honda starting"
and someone saying "get a diesel instead" or "get a Ford/Toyota"
That's not an answer people.
it amazes me, all the panic about this when this
http://www.sniperspy.com/
and others like it are freely available to any one with about $100.00 US. and they are legal!!!!! but it is as scary as any virus. it does more than this virus we are talking of here. even the Australian Privacy Foundation don't see it as anything to worry about apparently