Quoting Steve Thompson - UG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> i don't quite understand this logic. i can see where you don't want to
> reload if you get a
> virus, BUT if i get a linux virus and it deletes everything in my home.
> i'm gonna lose
> everything that is important. i can reload my workstation and setup the
> firewalls and such. i
> dont want to lose my important stuff. i understand from a server
> standpoint, but everyone
> says no big deal, you'll only lose whats in your user id, well thats
> the important stuff to
> me. i just burn it to a cd as a backup.
> anyway my 0.02c
OK, so you have a backup of /home, and the rest of your system is protected by
permissions preventing serious damage by a regular user.
This means that you may loose a day or two of work depending on your backup
schedule, but the system will still be there to restore the backup onto.
In windows, the user data is shot, the OS is often shot too, you are completely
SOL in M$ with many viruses...with or without a virus scanner.
Sure it sucks to loose work and personal data...but at least you don't have to
reinstall the whole piece of s#!t OS evey time some user decides that it'd be
neat to run the unknown executable from some stange guy in a country they've
never heard of. Or when some kiddie finds a way to emebd a visual basic script
in some new type of document.
When linux is used in a true multi-user environment, and of the 'N' users only
the guy who was dumb enough to D/L and double click 'IamNotAVirus.vbs' looses
out...sounds like good logic to me!
> Ian Marchak wrote:
<SNIP>
> > The worst you could do is bung up your user...as long as you aren't
> surfing as
> > root. Hence the repetitive cautions of many listgoers to newbies (not
> saying
> > you're one) not to surf as root.
> >
> > However, this is apparently only an Acrobat (creator not reader)
> issue.
> > --
> > Linux SxS [http://members.home.net/linuxsteps/
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