On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:57:43AM -0400, M. Adam Davis wrote:
> Linux is not immune to virii, and I'm sure someone, somewhere is out there
> working on one.
There've been a couple. The issue that prevents most problems is the
accounts system. Only the superuser can do serious damage. So even if a
virus is run as a regular user, while that user could experience file loss,
it's unlikely that the core functionality of the machine can be significantly
impacted.
>
> What linux does not have yet are inexperienced users who run any program that
> comes along on email or from a web site, which Windows has in abundance.
Now this could come to pass. This is why the community continues preaching
to new users to do work under a regular account, not as root.
BAJ
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> -Adam
>
> Paul Anderson wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Kris Wilk wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Or do what a friend of mine does and read your email on a Mac, which is
> > > impervious to attack from PC-borne virii, trojans, etc. :)
> > >
> > Or under Linux, which doesn't have virii.
