> a bit UNIX experience can tell you), it's just too hard. Virus > writers just don't have the in depth knowledge to break > the security models imposed by UNIX based OS platforms. Of course,
I think you underestimate virus writers, if Linux becomes very popular (like Windows popular) I can see virus'es being written, a virus doesn't require breaking into your machine at a low level, as someone else has pointed out rm a home directory is waay more effective than torching /usr/bin, /usr/bin is easy to restore... one vunerability in a setuid app and it'll be as easy to write a virus.. I'm not saying Windows doesn't make it easy, but I am saying that UNIX/Linux in order to achieve Windows levels of desktop usage will have to make some compromises to get the ease of use things right, and no-one can say that these won't be full of holes... Put it this way if Outlook never existed, would anyone really understand that executing e-mail contents is a stupid idea (yeah we all it know it now ..)... Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
