> But again, in either of those cases not being root does not necessarily > prevent your machine from being infected and/or the possible results > thereof. Everyone remembers Melissa, > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1999-04.html, if that were designed for > a Linux system, not being root would not stop/prevent it at all.
OK, but that required that you have macros set to autoexecute - if I remember right, that was the default setting for Office. In Linux.. most people use OpenOffice.org which is set by default to not auto execute macros. You have to explicitly click the Enable Macros button.. and only then will any embedded macros run. This does not account for buffer overflow exploits etc...I seem to remember one recently (in the past year) that would give you root access to a remote machine... scary except that you had to be root already to get into the state where the exploit could be triggered.. giving you root access to something you were already logged into as root... so not much of an exploit. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
