On Saturday 19 Jul 2008, Mehul Ved wrote:
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Arun Khan <knura@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is pretty much standard now. When you pop in the drive
Gnome/KDE pop up file managers with the drive mount on
/media/<something>.
I believe XFCE does it too. And for other window managers, you could
use ivman to achieve the same.
manager. I believe there was an autorun.inf which copied a whole
bunch of <directory>.exe in my home directory. It was like Whoa!
The point is that some of the virii have started recognizing a
Linux desktop and use Linux utils to install themselves.
Fortunately, they were windows exe and I removed them.
Was the desktop running wine? There's this thread going on, on
ubuntuforums, where people have managed to get windows virus to work
upto variable extents using wine.