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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