Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 13, 2006 08:57 PM
Nothing prevents a virus run by a user from modifying files in the user's own directory on a regular Linux machine. If the user has executables stored locally they can be infected on 99% of the Linux machines out there.
1) You can bet that among GNU/Linux users 99.9999% would never put executables in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/home . There are other directories for that.
2) in fact, a downloaded virus would not necessarily be with executable right
3) even in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/home you can restric right on your files
All this is to say that on a normally configured machine even getting your 'virus' into<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/home would not have much of an impact, if any
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you are SO wrong!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 13, 2006 08:57 PM1) You can bet that among GNU/Linux users 99.9999% would never put executables in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/home . There are other directories for that.
2) in fact, a downloaded virus would not necessarily be with executable right
3) even in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/home you can restric right on your files
All this is to say that on a normally configured machine even getting your 'virus' into<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/home would not have much of an impact, if any
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