Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 26, 2007 11:48 PM
While Linux is globally safer than windows, there are reasons why people, specially less experienced and less technical should use:
- Users like to install everything they find without questioning. It's very easy to distribute a trojan horse. For example, Ubuntu users normally install Automatix which can be a potential target for a trojan horse or any other kind of virus. I bit of social engineering and it's done. Easy. - Buffer overflows are still very common and browsers are easy targets. While arbitrary code wouldn't be executed with privileges, privilege escalation it's a hacking technique. Even if escalation is very difficult, annoying stuff is possible with user privileges. Using cron to execute malicious code regularly with user privileges is also possible.
Other techniques might exist. Only by the fact that Linux anti-virus exist people should question. If it was safe, no one would build a Linux anti-virus.
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Less experienced and technical users should use.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 26, 2007 11:48 PM- Users like to install everything they find without questioning. It's very easy to distribute a trojan horse. For example, Ubuntu users normally install Automatix which can be a potential target for a trojan horse or any other kind of virus. I bit of social engineering and it's done. Easy.
- Buffer overflows are still very common and browsers are easy targets. While arbitrary code wouldn't be executed with privileges, privilege escalation it's a hacking technique. Even if escalation is very difficult, annoying stuff is possible with user privileges. Using cron to execute malicious code regularly with user privileges is also possible.
Other techniques might exist. Only by the fact that Linux anti-virus exist people should question. If it was safe, no one would build a Linux anti-virus.
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