On Sunday September 7 2003 08:45 am, ed tharp wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 08:55, DrewMartin wrote: > > Hi All, > > Before this turns into a flame war between those of us > > how still use Windows to some degree(or are forced to for > > various reasons). It is a well know fact that the script > > kiddies who write these insidious pieces of code only do so, > > because Windows is such a wide spread OS in the world out > > there.If/when Linux(or Macs) become the OS of choice for the > > world at large,then the will start writing viri for these OS's > > too. Yes I do know for a virus to have full affect in Linux you > > must be running as root,but some clever bastard out there will > > one day work out how to rip thought that level of secretly. > > Drew > > ahh NO! > > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
I was gonna stay out this. Oh well ;) I was thinkin of posting the same link Ed. OTOH, M$ OS's being attacked "because Windows is such a wide spread OS in the world" just goes to show how successful M$ FUD is for those who want to believe it. Many do. For Linux to ever be as vulnerable as any M$ OS is, all the simplest security measures would have to be ignored, and you'd need to run, and connect to the Net as root. There's very real reasons M$ currently has their own microsoft.com servers hiding behind some Linux boxes. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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