[ubuntu-za] VIruses!!

[Christoff Erasmus]

Raoul,

Prefectly said.

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On 3 Jun 2011 07:26, "Raoul Snyman" <raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za>
wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:20:43 -0400, Lee Sharp wrote:
>> For the record, this is not totally true. There are some nasty browser
>> based bugs that will infect Ubuntu, but not many. Eventually there will
>
>> be more.
>
> What browser-based bugs (I presume you mean viruses?) are you talking
> about? The only way you can actually mess up your Linux box is if you run
> the virus as root, which would have to be a manual thing on Ubuntu.
>
> The reason Linux is mostly impervious to viruses (aside from the fact that
> it's not Windows), is that in order to really mess the computer up you
need
> to set the virus' executable permissions, and then run it as root. The
> worst a virus could do when not run as root is infect your home directory,
> in which case you simply create a new user, delete the old user and the
old
> user's home directory, and you're back to a clean PC.
>
> There's a really interesting write-up on one of the first Linux viruses, a
> virus called Bliss:
>
> http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/bliss/
>
> If you're wondering why you've never heard about it, it's because it has
> never actually gotten anywhere thanks to Linux's security model.
>
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