Re: [expert] Mandrake's Arrogance

[Bruce E. Harris]

The first thing a hacker wants to do when attacking your system is to gain root
access so he can exploit you system completely. If you are running your system 
at root already you have saved him a lot of time and trouble. Also, to be
effective a virus needs root access. When viruses start showing up against
Linux, and they will as Linux gains more popularity, look out. By not using
root all the time you can contain the virus to the user space is was collected
in and the majority of the system will be unaffected.

Root is very dangerous and I usually take my system off-line when using it.

Best Regards, Bruce