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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software

Slapper Worm Gets Facelift

Wednesday November 9, 2005
Unix-based BBS admins or bloggers beware - the Linux Slapper worm has been given a facelift and this time you're the target. And, as is too often the case, this new Linux worm has been assigned different names by antivirus vendors: McAfee, Computer Associates, and Sophos call it Linux/Lupper, Symantec calls it Linux.Plupii, Kaspersky as Backdoor.Linux.Small, Trend Micro as ELF_LUPPER.A, and ClamAV as Exploit.Linux.Lupii. >> Full Story

...Update On the Sony Rootkit Saga: Mark's Sysinternals Blog describes the hurdles one has to jump through in order to get the rootkit uninstaller from Sony - and how that uninstaller is uniquely identifying your PC in the process. Mark's title says it all, "Sony: You don’t reeeeaaaally want to uninstall, do you?"
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