Linux and Spywares - lack of reading

[Jeff Vian]

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.
> 
> {^_^}
> 

And don't forget.....   Any application run by a user only has the
permissions of that user (with extremely rare exception).  Thus any
exploit is by default limited in scope and affect.

In comparison, many virii in Winblows have full access to the system
regardless of the users permissions. 


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