On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:56:10 -0400, taharka <res00vl8@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Based on the following, this may change PDQ :-(( No it won't. One of the reasons viruses on Windows are so prevalent is that Windows makes it easy to execute foreign code. There is a lot of resistance against doing this in the free software world. When a data viewing program is too powerful, this is usually considered a bug and gets fixed. There can still be exploitable bugs in key applications (mainly web browsers and mail clients), but at least by design these applications are supposed to be safe. Down the road SELinux in strict mode will also help against attacks that trick people into running malicious code, but not letting random code do anything the user could do at say a shell prompt.
