Definitions - oops, forgot one thing

Definitions - oops, forgot one thing

Posted Feb 20, 2003 20:19 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Definitions by Ross
Parent article: Lindows sells virus protection

Except Linux users who do everything as root are susceptable to viruses when they run software they obtain through non-trusted channels (downloaded from random pages or from friends).

And Linux distributions (Lindows) which force everything to run as root are just asking for trouble. The distribution will let the user write to any file, and these users are probably not experienced enough to know what programs to trust and which not to trust.

It won't take any fetchmail bugs to allow viruses to spread on Lindows.

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