On Thursday 17 Sep 2009 12:44:48 pm Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves > > <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 17 Sep 2009 12:29:01 pm Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > >> In the Windoze world normally worms infect your computer to send mails > >> using your addressbook contacts and send spam using SMTP. > >> > >> Such things can never happen on UNIX. > > > > why not - suppose the user is foolish enough to run his gui as root user? > > He needs access to the addressbook. We have no such concept.
I do not understand - I have an address book > > And he needs open relay and an easy way to send e-mails. assume open relay - lot of inexperienced users have that > > I am not saying that it is not possible, but highly unlikely. in my early days I used to run as root, have an open relay and ftpd was enabled - I got root kitted > > The main problem for a virus writer assuming it is myself is to find out > the least common denominator of all Linux users. true > > That is very hard. Whereas Windows is a homogeneous world. yes -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
