What are the types of viruses that affect UNIX based operating systems?
Mr. Katkar: There are viruses on UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems which generally use the ELF executable file format. UNIX has seen various types of malwares like shell-code based, scripting based, ELF file infecting viruses, Email spreading worms and even root-kits. More over UNIX platforms which is more popular at sever level is the right place to intercept conventional Windows based malwares and threats as well. CE: We are thankful to you for spending time with us. What is your message to our CEans? Mr. Katkar: That’s a tough one. To all software engineers my advice is that the cyber crime scene is really getting worst as these criminals are going to any extent to break the applications and gain access or what ever their intent is. All those who are working on commercial applications and technology please keep the strong security angle at every level of software engineering. From design phase till testing phase one should have security aspect in the process. Especially for test
