Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey writes: > On 07/18/2012 09:39 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > > > > What's more surprising, over the past few weeks I've been removing Java > > from all my clients' Windows PCs. At first I was afraid something would > > break, but itt seems THEY'VE never really needed Java either. (I'm sure >

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey writes: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Michael ODonnell < > michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Since it's likely (inevitable?) that compromised Linux systems > will someday be involved in sensational headlines, I'd think > it would be even more humiliating if so

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Since it's likely (inevitable?) that compromised Linux systems > will someday be involved in sensational headlines, I'd think > it would be even more humiliating if somebody can dig up claims > that Linux

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Michael ODonnell" writes: > > >> Those who use terms like "immune" or "virus-proof" when > >> discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither > >> is true. > > > >Ouch. > > Ooops. I forgot about your signature line. ;-> > > > I gave careful consideration to adopting my current signatur

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> Those who use terms like "immune" or "virus-proof" when >> discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither >> is true. > >Ouch. Ooops. I forgot about your signature line. ;-> > I gave careful consideration to adopting my current signature > line, for exactly the reason of the prob

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 07/18/2012 09:39 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:23:45 -0400 > > Bill Sconce wrote: > > > >> And Java, yet another case -- if there ever turns out to be a reason to > >> have Java installed. > Java really failed in the

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 07/18/2012 09:39 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:23:45 -0400 > Bill Sconce wrote: > >> And Java, yet another case -- if there ever turns out to be a reason to >> have Java installed. > There seems never to have been a reason. Not on any Linux system I've > been responsible for,