On 7/1/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 30-Jun-07, at 1:02 PM, krishnakant Mane wrote: > unix and thus linux can't have viruses. they can have viruses. The only thing is that unless such viruses are activated by the root user, these viruses cant do much damage - at the most they can screw up the user's home directory.
Also, the binary viruses will need to be explicitly chmod'ed to give them execute permissions -- the last time I checked, nothing that is downloaded from the internet is given execute permissions directly. If the virus is in an archive, you'll need to actually un-archive it and then execute it -- this is probably the most likely way to spread. But then again, impact will be limited to the users privileges on the system. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar This document validates as Plain Text -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
