Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:47:08 +0200 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: 'zxu' <zxu@sript.com.cn>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Requiry Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179669@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: zxu [SMTP:zxu@sript.com.cn] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 7:25 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Requiry > > Gentleman, > There are so many virus fo Windows, what's about FreeBSD, Linux and > other > UNIX operation systems? [ML] Well, there have been some attempts, but unices run on very different hardware so that a binary virus has problems to spread on a different architecture, and usually sensible users do not run with superuser privileges so that the virii have problems spreading since a normal mortal cannot alter a system binary. Furthermore, there seems to be a maturity of the users in play, as well: the people knowledgeable enough to write a virus which would have a chance to spread among unix machines are usually no longer infantile enough to actually write one :) Shall we say, they find other things (kernel hacking comes to mind) more challenging than a mere virus. /Marino > Sincerely, > huining zhang > June 14,1999 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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