Yes it is an "honor virus" but if you are installing software you expect that it will be asking for your admin password. So if you install anything where you are not sure of its origins you can get into big trouble.
I wonder if in the long term this has very negative impact on shareware and freeware utilities. A lot of great midnight programmers and small companies are going to get buried. >This is what is known in the UNIX world as an "honor virus". You have >to put in place software you know to be illegitimate and give it >administrative access to install, or do something otherwise known to >be self destructive. > >If I were dumb enough to do this I could discover that shock of shock >my enterprise heavily firewalled role restricted servers are vulnerable. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
