[K12OSN] Virus Overview

[Burke Almquist]

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But if they are using windows at home (which is what they are all  
assuming) then the virus won't run on the linux systems at school.  
Linux doesn't have viruses in the wild like windows, a couple worms  
maybe, but those aren't something spread by users, they are caused by  
having services running that have security holes primarily. Even if  
someone wrote a linux virus, it would be hard to do any damage   
outside of their own space since the students and staff don't run  
with administrator (root) privileges.

On Sep 2, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Huck wrote:

> depends on if the virus was written for linux I suppose =)
>
> --Huck
>
> K12OSN wrote:
>
>> So... you setup a small network of thin client machines, you give  
>> those brite and shinny students a login and password, and the  
>> someone asks... what about virus protection software.
>> I say "well... you just don't have the same virus issues in Linux  
>> that you do in windows"
>> They say "what if a student brings a disk from home with a virus"
>> I say... "it won't spread becuase it's not the same as windows"
>> Is this right?
>> Robert
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