A true virus needs to have the right permissions to do any kind of REAL
damage...thus the warning about logging on as root only when needed. I
once read that this is the reason that there aren't virii for *nix: If
a hacker could get root access, why bother with a virus?
Devin
Adrian Bolzan wrote:
>
> At 09:46 26/10/98 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >To my knowledge (which is very little :), there are no viruses for
> >linux/Unix. What you DO have to worry about are trojan horses. A virus
> >is a PIECE OF DATA that is encapsulated in an executable, when run...it
> >replicates itself and spreads across ANY connection-oriented
> >communications...(floppy disks, networks, etc.) A trojan horse on the
> >other hand, does NOT replicate...but is actually a program that when
> >runs, looks like it is doing one thing, but does somthing else (usually
> >harmful). In UNIX, the harm done is USUALLY contained (unlike the Morris
> >Jr. Virus)...
> >
>
> what about boot sector viruses? are they possible? i am not really up on
> viruses and how they work...
>
> adrian b.
>
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