[Gllug] Virus on Linux/Mac

[Tom Weissmann]

Chris Jones wrote:

>> Yes but it only pops up when you do something which needs elevated
>> privileges so if you see it other than at a time you have requested an
>> action that justifies it you can know to just click cancel.
> 
> If you're a regular joe and your computer says "I need your password to
> do <some plausible thing>" how are you going to know?

Because you just asked the computer to do the plausible stuff.

If your computer decides to do stuff without you asking for it, and also 
needs you to give it the privileges to do so, whoever installed the 
software or virus that's doing the stuff didn't install it very well...

Regards,
Tom SW
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