command for downloading a package to save

[Clay Weber]

On Monday 15 June 2009 10:47:55 am Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> Steven,
>
> What, if any, programs did you install just before the problem started.??
>
> I know you were working on e-Sword just before but did you install
> _ANYTHING_ other than that?
>
> I may not be the sharpest tack in the box but from what little I know
> about Linux and virii you would have to manually, knowingly, purposely
> install it yourself. [ Someone correct me me if I'm wrong ]
>
> Steps to install a virus: [ presupposing there is a Linux virus out
> there to install ]
>
> 1) Download virus
> 2) navigate to where virus is and make the file executable
> 3) Execute the file
>
> It's the manual nature of the install that makes it nearly impossible to
> get a virus onto a linux system. On Windows systems the user is
> continuously in "root" [ admin mode ]. Virus writers can exploit this
> and have things that install without the users knowledge. So far this
> can't be done in Linux. [ unless your running your system in admin mode
> at the time ]
>

You have it pretty good :)
Otherwise a linux virus would have to determine both an admin username AND 
it's password to install itself, which in Ubuntu-based systems is harder as 
there is no native 'root' account.

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