On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 07:38 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Hans van der Merwe wrote: > > lware. > > > > Ok, tell me, seeing that I know nothing, if I can compromise a Linux > > users home dir - why cant I send out spam? > > > > > I have never claimed such a thing is impossible, but it is far more > difficult to do with Linux. In order to send out spam, something has to > execute that can do that. That means the user has to make something > executable and then execute it. That barrier is much lower in Windows. > The bottom line, which you apparently refuse to accept, is that it is > much more difficult for such problems to occur with Linux. Please note, > I'm not saying impossible, just much more difficult. Please also > understand that Windows was built as a single user system, without many > of the security methods that are standard in Linux & Unix and you can > add to that some extremely poor software design in MS products, that > turn them into a security sieve. This means no matter how careful a > user is, Windows will always be far more risky. >
I think we agree on the subject. Last thing - I dont think most virus/trojan/DOSattack writers do it because its easy to do it in Windows (which it is), but because its got a huge impact on the computer industry (80% odd using flavor of Win) -> and in there lies my main argument, that if it is do-able in Linux (irrelevant of afford) it will hit the successful Desktop Linux market. And thats all he wrote Hans E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
