Cross-browser firefox/konqueror malware on Ubuntu Dapper

Michael V. De Palatis mvd at gatech.edu
Fri Aug 4 16:57:40 UTC 2006


On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:49:36PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> ?? Michael V. De Palatis <mvd at gatech.edu>:
> 
> > Otherwise, I hope malware doesn't
> > start becoming as commonplace on Linux as it is on Windows...
> 
> It will, if there are enough people don't care about the
> computer and want it to "just work", or if Linux is too
> much like Windows.

Well, there are a lot of technical reasons why that might not
happen. It all depends on software being designed properly, I suppose.

Mike




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