[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu Linux virus?

[Reenen Laurie]

But virus writers would all like to say that they wrote the first or
some of the first virus for linux. Also google is now writing a
linux... And i aan think of at least one mega corp who'd like the
argument that linux is not as safe as people think. Though i usually
think it's more likely something else.

On 8/7/09, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> David Robert Lewis wrote:
>
>> So, yes, virus could arrive in the mail, and reproduce in the system,
>> quite easily I imagine. All they need to execute is the fairly low level
>> security on the system. I am not keeping track of every single process.
>> The network does not need root privileges to get up. Or am I being
>> completely stupid?
>
> Think about this for a minute...  How would it execute?
>
> Web API?  It is cross platform, but IE or Firefox?  You could just do
> Firefox, but most people that install Firefox also block web apps from
> executing automagically in e-mail...  You would want IE users, as they
> are the low hanging fruit.
>
> OS?  If it is only Linux, it will stop awfully fast.  Most of my address
> book is Windows users...  A few are MAC.  Damn few are Linux.
>
> So you would have to make a cross platform malware...  And the extra
> code to support Linux would only get you a very small amount of
> additional bots.  Remember that scammers are lazy.  That is why they
> don't get real jobs. :)  So they won't do a lot of extra work for no return.
>
> 			Lee
>
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