Linux and Spywares - lack of reading

[jdow]

From: "jdow" <jdow at earthlink.net>
> From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10 at charter.net>
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 17:13 -0800, jdow wrote:
> > > From: "David Curry" <dsccable at comcast.net>
> > >
> > >
> > > > jdow wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Of course you do know of the recent exploits found for Mozilla,
> aren't
> > > > >you, Brian? What's this "No antivirus needed" I hear about for
Linux?
> > > > >
> > > > >{^_-}   The quibbler.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > "Recent exploits found for Mozilla" is news here.  Care to elaborate
> or
> > > > point me in the right direction?
> > >
> > > Ran across it in the Dartmouth IRIA news summaries yesterday. It's
> > > scrolled off. It appears to affect the core of Mozilla so it affects
> > > FireFox as well. It should appear in the CERT advisories.
> > >
> > > It appears Mozilla is getting more attention from crackers now that
> > > it is starting to command a noticeable market share. It's a matter of
> > > time before more serious items appear. Of course, without things like
> > > ActiveX it's a little harder to mash a Linux machine than a Windows
> > > machine.
> > >
> > > {^_^}

They had another reference today - it was a spyware application. If a
spyware can be tossed onto the machine then a rootkit can, also.

http://news.com.com/Spyware+takes+aim+at+Mozilla+browsers/2100-7349_3-5569635.html

{^_^}