On Tuesday 27 July 2004 13:31, flesh.99 wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:44:43 +0800, frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
bascule wrote:
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote:
snip
I apologize if I cover points already made, I am new to the list, so
please forgive me if that
bascule wrote:
stephen,
i'd agree that a truly secure environment would prevent unknown programs from
running, but a virus doesn't necessarily need root privs.
if i can write a shell script that runs as a user, that can wipe my user
files, send mail with attachments, create a dotfile and a user
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
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:44:43 +0800, frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
-- SNIP --
Setting up the commands to install RPM's in userspace would not be that
hard. Most of the framework is already there. You can tell RPM to use
a database in the user's home direstory instead of the system database.
The bigest problem is that most RPMs are not
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:39 pm, flesh.99 wrote:
it's all above, folks
I'm not sure this is a good idea, guys. Ease of use is one of the main
reasons for all of those rooted PC's out there that keep spamming us. It's
also the main source of all of those emails to windows help lists that
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 04:43, John Wilson wrote:
Of course you could be missing the point that Microsoft keeps making that
Linux itself is a virus. :-)
And so it is! I've been infected! Aaargh! ;)
Germn.
Want to buy your Pack or Services
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:42, Marc wrote:
At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that
did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a
succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and
have been unable to find
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 12:43, John Wilson wrote:
Of course you could be missing the point that Microsoft keeps making that
Linux itself is a virus. :-)
ttfn
John
Microsoft Windows (tm) has been the virus since the advent of Winodws95
(tm); it killed OS/2 and BeOS systems between
stephen,
i'd agree that a truly secure environment would prevent unknown programs from
running, but a virus doesn't necessarily need root privs.
if i can write a shell script that runs as a user, that can wipe my user
files, send mail with attachments, create a dotfile and a user cron job to
At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that
did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a
succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and
have been unable to find it again.
Can anyone here point me to it?
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote:
At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that
did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a
succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives
and have been unable to find it
On July 25, 2004 06:24 pm, SME Server Admin wrote:
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 00:42, Marc wrote:
At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article
that did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for
a succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been
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