Posted Monday 19th January 2009 15:04 GMT
@Anonymous Coward
Nope, wrong.
Windows can install via Office problems. Why? Because IE is run as admin (some of it higher than that) and it is used in Office for rendering messages.
Autorun is how this worm manages to propogate.
No autorun on Linux.
Therefore this vector CANNOT EXIST on Linux.
Your statement is just wishful thinking and completely and utterly without any data that could suggest it may be true.
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