On пт, 2004-01-30 at 23:15, Peter Wu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:47:12PM +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: > > > On ??, 2004-01-30 at 21:43, Peter Wu wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:15:06PM +0100, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > > > > > > > lukas wrote: > > > > >On Friday 30 January 2004 05:02, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > > > > > > > > >It's sad that the internet is troubled by some weirdos who are > > > > >thinking that programming (or spreading) a virus is a real cool > > > > >thing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ooo yes, everything bad is good for something. > > > > > > > > One of virus purposes was to force M$hit to improve > > > > their crappy pseudo systems. We learned M$ is > > > > totally immune to such forces and really don't care > > > > about security and stability at all. > > > > (Only one thing is important INCOME.) > > > > > > Well, as a commericial company, Microsoft was founded to make money. So > > > do other companies, don't they? > > > > > > > This situation really forced ppl to do something > > > > with it ... and linux was born :-). > > > > > > Well, some of the recent worms are activated by end users open an > > > attachment, which could be an vbs or an executable. It is the executable > > > that infects the system as most Windows users log in as an Administrator > > > role. > > > > > > What if root on a Linux box open an attachment to a mail he receives today > > > and that attachment happens to be some executable that can ruin the > > > system? > > > > > As far as i know attachments in Linux are not executable, unless u made > > them such. > > If I write a shell script and attach to an email sent to you, then you > save the attached shell script and run it when you happen to have the > roott privilege? > > IIRC, any binary files can be attached to an email. Correct me if I am > wrong. Yes thats so, but before running it, you have to make it executable /chmod +x SCRIPT/ in order to run it. Windows scripting is much more vulnerable by allowing some auto-exec features. -- Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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