[Ilugc] query about virus attack on UNIX / LINUX environment
- From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Thu Sep 17 12:45:11 2009
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?
He needs access to the addressbook. We have no such concept.
And he needs open relay and an easy way to send e-mails.
I am not saying that it is not possible, but highly unlikely.
The main problem for a virus writer assuming it is myself is to find out
the least common denominator of all Linux users.
That is very hard. Whereas Windows is a homogeneous world.
-Girish
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