On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Dale wrote > Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through > java/javascript/flash?
There are two levels of "infection"... 1) One-off execution of bad stuff when you visit a web page. 2) A more permanent infection that survives restarting the web browser, and rebooting the machine. But that would need to be linux executable. > Or would the infection at the least be limited to that user? Usually, unless they find a privilege escalation hole. Then again, it's the user-info (bank login and password, credit card number, etc) that's really profitable for organized crime. > How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? If/when it results in the end of Flash, that's an improvement. The thing I worry about is that anything "powerful enough" can be (ab)used. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
