http://mac.blorge.com/2008/03/05/troika-creates-mostly-harmless-newton-mac-osx-virus/
"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length" -- Robert Frost 2009/7/11 joachim Gwoke <[email protected]> > > Mike, > I lay no claim to being an expert but I have to disagree with you. I am > willing to bet a little google-time and you will end up with unix or mac > virus info right from news to source code and tools on how to go about them. > > > Regards > Joachim > > > Â Â Â 1. Re: Google's OS Security Claims Called > > 'idiotic' (Mike Barnard) > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:14:54 +0300 > > From: Mike Barnard <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [LUG] Google's OS Security Claims Called > > 'idiotic' > > To: [email protected], > > Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: > > Â Â Â <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Hari Kurup <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > <http://www.cio.com/article/print/496902> > > > Bruce Schneier, the chief security technology officer > > at BT, scoffed at > > > Google's promise. "It's an idiotic claim," Schneier > > wrote in an e-mail. > > > "It was mathematically proved decades ago that it is > > impossible -- not > > > an engineering impossibility, not technologically > > impossible, but the > > > 2+2=3 kind of impossible -- to create an operating > > system that is immune > > > to viruses." > > > > > > > > > I would tend to disagree and to agree with Bruce. Unless I > > am wrong, I have > > not heard of Viruses for MacOS, *BSD family of OSes and > > UNIX OSes in > > general, Linux. There is a tendency to find bugs and > > security holes in > > programs run on these OSes, but the underlying OS is pretty > > secure (not > > 100%). One trend that I believe we have all noticed is the > > creation of > > viruses for expensive commercial products. Adobe has been > > the latest of > > applications to have viruses targeted at them. i am yet to > > see a virus > > targeted to OpenOffice. > > > > The OS installed on my laptop has the capability of locking > > the OS down to > > the point where if something is not installed, not even > > root will install it > > unless you drop down the security level to a level where > > root is allowed to > > install and run something globally. This ensures that if i > > grant user A an > > account on my laptop, what ever he runs will be in his > > userland. It will not > > affect me nor try to change the binary files in the common > > executable paths. > > > > If Google is thinking this way, then they may just be 'a > > little' right on > > their claim. > > > > Solaris have been working on something that i think can > > achieve this (stand > > to be corrected), Containers and > > Zones<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers> > > The BSd family have had their version for a while called > > Jails<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail>. > > Get it from the horses mouth <http://wiki.freebsd.org/Jails>. > > > > There is a list of OS support for such > > system< > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtualization>and > > what they can do. Some use external applications, for > > example, Linux, > > AIX others have it embedded into the OS, for example, > > Solaris. FreeBSD > > > > -- > > Mike > > > > Of course, you might discount this possibility, but > > remember that one in > > a million chances happen 99% of the time. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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