[Gllug] Anti-virus

[Stig Brautaset]

On Oct 24 2002, Mike wrote:
> Indeed. User level code is more worrying. Linux may be immune to viruses
> ni that they can't touch system level programs, but it's not hard to
> conceive of a "virus" which destroyed the users home directory and
> mailed itself to all the email addresses in their Moz profile, or
> similar. It wouldn't infect the machine, but would do more than enough
> damage, nonetheless.

I'm not an expert on these issues, but is that why mozilla put its
configuration file in ~/.mozilla/default/<random garbled string>/ ?




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