bascule wrote: > On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote:
The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence an attack on a linux box is generally from outside, and not inside - unless someone was successful at running a rootkit on the machine in question.
I can see it now,
Your accout has been temporairily disabled due to security issues. please save this file somewhere, then open a terminal and type unzip xxxx.zip
followed by: chmod 755 xxxx.zip
then type: ./xxxx.sh
when nothing noticable happens, please ignore it and go back to what you where doing.
If you want to see the issues from roots perspective, then please type: su - before ./xxxx.sh
(it would be difficult to create a method of GUI usage that would work across kde/gnome/icewm/etc and all versions thereof.
and all mail clients and so on and so on.... but the command line would work everywhere...
so what would happen? well one of two things, a method like the above, or a much bigger virus that has logic to work out what window manager and apps are in place that can respond appropraitly to that widow manager type and version and the installed apps.
or something via shell,
on the upside, clamav is totally GPL, so it won't be long till it's installed by default, and that will happen long before linux starts needing it.
-- rgds
Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) http://htmlfixit.com
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