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On Tuesday 29 January 2002 3:41 pm, Steve Marvell wrote:
Can't argue with that. There are some very basic safeguards for stopping email type viruses. However, a Word virus is not easy to trap until it hits you. In fact, is there a way of hitting Word so you're safe?
AbiWord StarOffice KWord WordPerfect WordPro ......
Education is an answer, but then who is to say that the people will head the advice. How many will update the virus checker? Having said that, there's no ammount of forsight which will prevent viruses which exploit some new flaw.
Oh come on, there's only one reason for the concern and we all know it - Windows executes arbitrary binaries with full system privileges. If the virus/worm/trojan didn't have system wide access, it wouldn't be anywhere near as dangerous. The only exploits of Linux that have received any serious attention all relate to programs that run as root, are SUID'd to root or provide root access through mangled input data. The ordinary user is completely useless for virus writers. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx neil@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.