[PLUG] got info?

[alan]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Lost In Space wrote:

> Just a thought, but I believe that Linux could be infected with malware,
> spyware, viruses, and malicious code if it were created for Linux. Is this
> an incorrect thought. I may be totally incorrect as Linux does not use
> executibles as Windows does, but it does seem possible that it could be
> infected although much more difficult than Windows

It is quite possible.

They are much harder to spread, however.

Under Windows, the original assumption was that every user was the 
equivelent to root.  Not the case anymore, but so many of the apps need 
that sort of permissions to run that it is still the case on far too many 
systems. (MS Word for a very long time required the ability to modify 
system binaries in order to run.)

With Linux, users are not allowed (unless you do something stupid) to 
modify system binaries.


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