[Gllug] Virus on Linux/Mac

[Chris Jones]

Hi

Jason Clifford wrote:
> Nothing new about that. Trojans are possible on every platform however
> one with any decent level of privilege separation does mean that only
> the users own files (and those he has write privileges to) are affected
> rather than the system as a whole.

Except that the universal weak point of any system is the users.
I guarantee you that if a trojan was aimed at the millions of Ubuntu
users and re-exec'd itself via gksu, a good number would blithely type
in their password and grant full privileges.

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones
  cmsj at tenshu.net
   www.tenshu.net
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