[Gllug] Virus on Linux/Mac

Sat Sep 22 19:29:40 UTC 2007

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:04 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> I'm sorry, but that simply is not true.  Sometimes it seems as if people
> who get into this kind of thread have had no Windows experience since
> Windows 95.  What you say was true of that but was never true of Windows
> NT and all the versions of Windows that Microsoft sell now are descended
> from NT.  They all have user-based security and file system permissions.
> The scenario you describe is only true when the user is logged in as an
> administrator.  Of course, this is the default for XP Home Edition...

It's trivial to circumvent Windows broken "permissions" system - there
have been viruses since before 2000 that give themselves escalated
privilege with the NT kernel! 

C. 

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