On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:30:49AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > http://www.esj.com/News/article.asp?EditorialsID=472
A piece of FUD. C&C try to create themselves a market. Under Linux the problem is quite different than under Windows. For instance: * software distribution channels are more relible: people get all/most of the software from respectable places. Getting a piece of malicious code inside is inherently more difficult. * Any possibility to execute arbitrary code is considered a serious bug, and must be solved fast by the distro: this is one place where distros are easy to compare. Security flaw" is also a possibility by a user to gain some more priviliges than he's supposed to have, or execute arbitrary code as with those priviliges. * In windows you "open" everything, and half of those things are executables, or may contain arbitrary executable code (ms-office macros). I figure many unix people know better than that. A linux worm that spreads as a "run me" attachment is quite unthinkable at the moment, because the mailer programmers had the minimal brains. And besides: a virus scanner is a lousy solution to the problem. Have you noticed that you have to keep it up-to-date to make it efficient? Why not keep your system patched instead? (this can be automated just as well. Easily). -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
