[Ilugc] query about virus attack on UNIX / LINUX environment

  • From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
  • Date: Thu Sep 17 12:38:09 2009

On Thursday 17 Sep 2009 12:29:01 pm Girish Venkatachalam wrote:

In the Windoze world normally worms infect your computer to send mails
using your addressbook contacts and send spam using SMTP.

Such things can never happen on UNIX.

why not - suppose the user is foolish enough to run his gui as root user?
-- 
regards
kg
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