[Gllug] Virus on Linux/Mac

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Fri Sep 21 14:14:02 UTC 2007


On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:33:36PM +0100, Pete Stean wrote:
> so you'd get a terminal popping up, unrequested, asking for your root
> password?   I wouldn't be typing in my root password if that happened
> - I'd be running away from my machine thinking it had a ghost  :\  lol

Most users will do what is asked of them - they don't understand.
Like most pop up with a 'yes'/'no' - people will click yes without
reading the text because they have learned that the text is meaningless
(to them) technobabble.

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