Router Virus

Do you know if there is a virus that specifically attacks and infects
routers?

"Kentish" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Do you know if there is a virus that specifically attacks and infects
> routers?
>
>

Not aware of any, but that does not mean much, HOWEVER,
remember that unlike windoze machines where everybody is
using the same OS, different routers use different OS's --
most of the newer Linksys stuff runs on Linux I believe (and
you can go to their site and download the source code for the
router if you are interested since it is open source). For a
number of the Linksys routers, you can even download third
party versions of the firmware. This would make it pretty
tough to find a consistent way to screw it up. Far easier to
just hack the windoze machines ...

mikey