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Re: mysterious malware

In article <2128142.O6Z7oZJ453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's a conspiracy by Linux guys top spread malware to Windows machines.
> 
> I posted about it a couple of days ago. It seems likely that Windows zombies
> let passwords leak out, which then grant hacker access to servers that happen
> to run Linux.

How do Windows zombies get access to Linux server passwords?  (And not 
just any old ordinary passwords, either...it would have to be passwords 
to server accounts that have root access on the servers).

-- 
--Tim Smith

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