<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Yes, but that is with users consent. Those actions occur with root or sudo password. When most folks think of a virus its done without consent. On Windows my son had viruses all the time, but he never consented to them. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Those scripts can only be done by system administrator with sudo / root access. Other users can't execute those scripts. This is entirely different than Windows in which they are executed without root permissions and without the users knowledge.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If we want to call anything we execute with root permissions and a corresponding password a virus, sure Linux has viruses. </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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take a look at malicious commands<br>
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?a=54" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?a=54</a><br>
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If you send a script to a linux user and trigger him to make that script<br>
executable. If the script integrates itself in the list of applications<br>
launched at the user login, the attacker has won.<br>
(even easier on windows)<br>
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If I am wrong, please correct my statement.<br>
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