Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:41:17AM +0100, Nigel Wade wrote: > >> For a virus to be viable it has to be communicable. In this instance >> the virus required manual "injection". Hence the 0-49 infections in 3 >> years, and the virutally zero threat. > > But it wasn't quite manual -- happened through sloppy practices. So it's on the same threat level as a bash script that does "rm -f /*". If you can get someone to run an executable as root, then you can do just about anything you want. The only exception would be if they did a good job with SELinux, but if they did a good job with SELinux they wouldn't be running unknown executables as root. -- William Hooper