trojan problem

[Anders Karlsson]

On 1/27/06, Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah at easywebsite.se> wrote:
> Of course it is. There are no "trojans" on linux. There are rootkits but
> they are much more difficult to install. A trojan is usually a peice of
> malware disguised as an email attachment that appears useful. The user
> clicks on it and unwittingly installs it on Windows. On ubuntu if you
> want to install software often you have to be root to do so. This limits
> the abilities of trojans to install themselves on users computers making
> linux much more secure.

Strictly speaking, a trojan is software that is malicious while
disguised as legitimate software. They exist for Linux as well (there
was one in the openssl or openssh configure script a while back).

Linux is not invulnerable to virii, and there are hundreds of virii
for Linux, they just do not spread so easily. Because Windows has a
much larger install base, and usually less cluefull users, virii
writers targets Windows because the reward is bigger.

Do not make the mistake of believing "because I use Linux no harm will
come to me". The bigger the install base, the bigger the target and
the bigger the reward for a successful virii.

Regards,

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Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>