Linux and Spywares - lack of reading

[jdow]

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.
> >
> > {^_^}
> >
>
> 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.

Rootkits exist. Need I say more?
{^_^}