[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu Linux virus?

[Lee Sharp]

David Robert Lewis wrote:

> So, yes, virus could arrive in the mail, and reproduce in the system, 
> quite easily I imagine. All they need to execute is the fairly low level 
> security on the system. I am not keeping track of every single process. 
> The network does not need root privileges to get up. Or am I being 
> completely stupid?

Think about this for a minute...  How would it execute?

Web API?  It is cross platform, but IE or Firefox?  You could just do 
Firefox, but most people that install Firefox also block web apps from 
executing automagically in e-mail...  You would want IE users, as they 
are the low hanging fruit.

OS?  If it is only Linux, it will stop awfully fast.  Most of my address 
book is Windows users...  A few are MAC.  Damn few are Linux.

So you would have to make a cross platform malware...  And the extra 
code to support Linux would only get you a very small amount of 
additional bots.  Remember that scammers are lazy.  That is why they 
don't get real jobs. :)  So they won't do a lot of extra work for no return.

			Lee