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sum1 plz hlp me 2 remov shadow-utils virus frm my box! it has tken ovah!
Topic: Computer Security 6:57 pm EST, Jan 24, 2005

Now this is probably the most obvious example of blatant snake oil salesmanship I've ever seen. I am utterly astounded that this company does such little fact checking of their database that it actually contains this...

For those not on the up-and-up with Unix software, shadow-utils is the package that provides shadow password authentication for pretty much every Linux distribution out there that isn't using PAM authentication. It does not even work on Win32, and the PestPatrol entry is actually listing the files that come in the shadow-utils *source* package. *Nothing* of the files listed is actually executeable on a Windows machine without some _serious_ application of the Cygwin development suite.

Someone was very, *very* st0ned when it came time to analyze this one for inclusion in the database.

sum1 plz hlp me 2 remov shadow-utils virus frm my box! it has tken ovah!



 
 
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