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Subject: Re: Off-topic: The Big One?

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 07:59:44 05/05/00

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On May 05, 2000 at 07:53:44, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>On May 05, 2000 at 00:22:19, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>The executable did not start automatically -- user had to manually run it. I
>>beleive that there are 2 factors why there are no such viruses on *nux:
>
>>(1) It's much less widespread than Windows (I am not talking about server
>>environment/universities).
>>(2) Average user knows that's it not a good isea to start unknown executable.
>
>(3) The virus programmer knows that if the user will execute his program he can
>destroy the files of this user but it's rather hard to write a virus which will
>ruin the whole system.

I already wrote that average user would login as the administrator -- please
read again the part you had deleted. Just look how that average user logs on on
NT/Win2k.

Eugene


>Best wishes,
>Steffen.



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