[Gllug] hello

[Simon Wilcox]

On 11/08/2010 08:45, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> There's a lot of it about.  It's a Windoze Trojan that has become very
> common lately, spread through music downloads, ignored by many of the
> "anti-malware" programs, that uses Gmail accounts for the purpose of
> spamming.  The Trojan uses a malformed .lnk file placed on the victims'
> desktop, which the uninformed will click on!  This is a demonstration of
> the impossibility of making anything from MS properly secure.

And what makes you think that Linux is not equally vulnerable to such 
attacks ?

The users are generally more clueful, it's true and there are 
sufficiently few of us that it's not worth the virus writers' efforts to 
write such a programme but Linux is just as vulnerable to social 
engineering type attacks as any other system, including Windows and Mac 
OS X.

This is, in fact, a demonstration of the impossibility of making any 
general purpose computer system properly secure (and usable) for the 
general public.

S.
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