--- In [email protected], Roy Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have used Linux for years without virus concerns. There are a few
Linux viruses, but unless you are logged on as 'root', which is not to
be advisable then it is hard for the virus to do any damage to your
system.
This is a myth. A virus/trojan can set up housekeeping anywhere it
can acquire read-write access, even if that's "just" your /home.
I of course agree that routine use of root access is to be avoided,
BUT not being logged in as root when a virus incursion happens only
limits the degree of damage it can do, not stops it altogether.
Same thing for Windows users, unless the non-admin account is
stringently limited to "Guest" access -- which is not quite the same
thing as the built-in Guest account, which, I've heard, should be
renamed if not outright disabled, because as a system account, it can
be more easily leveraged into unauthorized greater access than a
created User account.
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