Judging from my mailserver logs a "My Klez" would be in there too
Edmund Cramp -- http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of john beamon > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 12:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > > I notice XP comes with "My eBooks", a proprietary format that has > not been > opened up to Unix or even Mac (when I last heard about it, may be > fixed). > I'm waiting for a "My Disney Trailers", right there on the desktop. > Something that requires a reg edit to go away. I've already got "My > Received Files", so there should be subdirs for "My Worms" and "My > Macros". It's only reasonable, after all, to have this vendor specify a > dir tree for the most common data this platform will deal with. > > -- > -j > > John Beamon > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Jerald Sheets wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:26:05 -0500 > > From: Jerald Sheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > > > "My Sandbox" > > > > ...you just kill me, you know it? > > > > :-) > > > > --jms > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john beamon > > > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 10:23 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > > > > > > > > The Unix user base is anything but small. Most of the > > > doctor's offices > > > and small hospitals in this area run SCO; the biggest one > > > runs AIX with > > > PC's connected to it. Every interent account at EATEL or NTG > > > is a Unix > > > user account. I know one would think that POP and personal web space > > > doesn't make one a "user", but that's the word the system > > > uses when you > > > add them. Of the millions of Linux desktop users out there, > > > there are > > > precious few who've ever been wormed by Lion or that thing > > > ZDNet keeps > > > saying jumps back and forth between Linux and Windows. What a load. > > > People who run Linux all day logged in as root like that > > > shoot themselves > > > in the foot. That goes back to my suggestion that Windows > > > really ought to > > > have users work in a "My Sandbox" and prompt them for an > > > Admin password > > > when anything tries to make system changes. Unix doesn't > > > have viruses > > > because-and-when people don't run it as root. The famous > > > sendmail worm of > > > so many years ago hit sendmail because it runs as root, case > > > in point. > > > It's impossible for anything in my Linux email to infect a > > > system binary, > > > period. I could lose $HOME, but that's about it. > > > > > > -- > > > -j > > > > > > John Beamon > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, mat branyon wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:52:30 -0500 > > > > From: mat branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > > > > > > > i know the whole security through obscurity crap that microsoft is > > > > trying to sell is crap. but if you think about it, *nix > > > doesnt really > > > > have many viruses because the user base is small (compared to M$). > > > > you could say that well, ok, and i agree, the user base is > > > also has a > > > > minimum iq requirement, but then, i havent heard of mac viruses > > > > either... just thought i would share a thought > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
