> >There is one, somewhere, but it's pretty much ignored. Unix, in general, is
> >pretty much invulnerable to virus's.
>
> Invulnerable? What intrinsic quality grants Unix this remarkable privilege?
it doesn't allow hardware level access -- at least not as easily as, say,
MS-DOS or windows( <= 3.x , 95). that knocks out boot sector viruses (the
only kind I can honestly say I was exposed to 'in the wild').
For some time MS was making essentially the same claim about NT. I do not
know if it still is.
> >The easy way to avoid all of these is to just not run as root on a normal
> >basis. No root privilege tends to cripple trojan horses.
>
> Thanks for the very interesting reply.
he's pretty correct. If you aren't running as root, you can't corrupt
anything but your own files. If you are foolish (or unlucky) enough to do
that, tough. The point of unix was to make a system that a general user
couldn't mess up for everyone (among other things)
Vinnie (who doesn't know a whole lot about viruses, but bliss may make her
learn, as she can't seem to find anything between the actual source code
and the mccaffee scare info in technicality to learn from)
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