[Gllug] Virus on Linux/Mac

[Caroline Ford]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:51 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> 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.

In fact Ubuntu users do lots of unsafe stuff - generally installing
packages from anywhere* and adding anything they've seen on the forums
to their sources.list. 

Caroline

*We get loads of bugs from random shite that people have installed from
god-knows-where.

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