From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 19:17: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6725D37C2E5 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e6A2H0u87046; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:17:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:17:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: bartequi@neomedia.it Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Viruses for Unix (was Re: Virus alert, was: Re: SCSI Question) In-Reply-To: <20000709.23210400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > However, my current understanding is that "viruses" canNOT damage > FreeBSD (or, more generally, a Unix system), provided the following > conditions (The Three Laws of Good Administration(tm)) are met: > > axiom I: Never execute untrusted binaries as root; > axiom II: Never execute untrusted binaries as root; > axiom III: Never execute untrusted binaries as root. :-) Rule IV: Don't run untrusted binaries as a user. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message