Am Di, den 05.10.2004 schrieb Temlakos um 18:33: > I'm sure that's comforting--for now. And we all hope that Linux is > inherently more secure against viruses of all types. Maybe we're right. > But as more people get fed up with "WinDoze" or "Window$" or however you > want to spell it, what will happen when cyber-terrorists start attacking > Linux directly with virus operations? That's what some of my clients are > asking me right now. What do I tell them? > > Temlakos You could try to explain them, that Linux has a very different "design" and a working user rights management. Of course there are too enough people using Linux (mainly unexperienced? certainly untrained) and working much too much as root. Well, on the one side you can't technically kill all the human weaknesses. Too much users "click" on each object they can they can get a mouse over or doing other stupid things. Being unprivileged users this is normally not a big problem when using Linux. (Of course, having Java Script enabled in the browser can raise up other problems, concerning privacy.) So in a business environment workers hardly have root permissions on their desktops. It is the job of the careful administrator to keep both eyes open when installing software. In smaller environments, where even unexperienced people have root permissions you loop back to the point I mentioned above. Of course many problems with worms and other software terrorism could be avoided on Windows[tm] if on NT based platforms not so many people would works with administrator privileges. That is a fact and no way around this. Take the new praised XP SP2: working as administrator and stupidly getting a virus/worm, he can disable all the new features which shall care for security. Working as normal user this couldn't take place. A different point is that nobody than Microsoft can fix bugs i.e. in the Internet Explorer or bad default settings with Outlook / Outlook Express. Speaking in contrast about open source software and especially about free software, there are quickly many developers who change the code to fix issues. Again: viruses are a result of bad OS structures since early DOS (how much viruses do you know for BSDs, Solaris or other UNIXes?) and much laziness and stupidity on the users side. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 18:37:31 up 5 days, 21:03, load average: 1.01, 1.89, 1.51
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