Mail from ILUG-BOM list (Non-Digest Mode) _______________________________________________ On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 11:09:45AM -0500, Philip S Tellis wrote: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Vicky wrote: > > > advice anyway and talking about it I do have another less priv. login > > which I use for the really dangerous stuff like I had got my hands on > > this Linux Virus by VLAD and I use the login to test it and stuff > > The only thing that can help a linux virus spread is people running it as > root. What would have happenned if you hadn't known that it was a virus > before you ran it? Same thing that would have happened if you ran a dos or windows program that could cause trouble. As an argument it is always better to be safe than to be sorry but if your doing tons of development work and all sorts of things constantly on your workbox then you take the easy non safe way, instead of su'ing to root every single time. I'm pretty careful what I run. I've never every even bothered to install a TSR or commandline virus scanner on even my Win. partition other than that macro stuff there isent really too many programs out there that cause harm. You have to use common sense dont run something that clams to be a powerful wordprocessor or graphics app but is only a few K in size. In my years and years on the net I havent come across an infected program or even a destructive tojen horse. And if you say what about all those email virus then hard luck thats the price you pay for using M$ software with remote scripting abilities. regards Vicky > > Philip > > -- > Visit my homepage at: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ > Read stuff I've written at: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ > > > --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Next Meet on 12th Nov 2000 at HBCSE Website: http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ Linuxers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers CHAT: irc.ilug-bom.org.in
