kenneth marken wrote: >> >> Bottom line, there are a lot of technical and usage reasons that make it >> much harder for malware to attack Linux/Unix. >> >> > the "big" problem here is that the target for said malware have > changed... > > its no longer about bringing down whole systems. these days its the > users data they are after. credit card info, codes of all kinds, and > just about anything else. > > was there not a sweep of ransom attacks where a worm would archive the > whole content of the users document dir, and encrypt the archive? > leaving a message to send x amount of money to some account for the > password? > > under these situations, read access is more then enough access, most > of the time. > > the only option i can see for the user then is to run every program he > tries to make use of online, inside some kind of chroot can. but even > thats not perfect. > > basically, the only really safe option is to yank that plug, and use > only home-coded apps... Again, it's harder. In Outlook, for example, a virus attached to an email could run as soon as the message was read, without the user having to do anything. For a virus to run in Linux, the user would have to: 1) detach the file 2) make it executable 3) manually run it In short, it won't run without the user taking 3 deliberate steps to run it. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
