Messages in this thread |  | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Bliss Virus (fwd) | Date | 7 Feb 1997 17:38:50 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.199702072233.RAA00594@aem.netcom.ca>, Andrew E. Mileski <aem@netcom.ca> wrote: >> The Bliss virus is currently a Linux binary-infecting virus. >> Unfortunately, please do not feel your safe. > >...unless you aren't stupid and only login as root for system admin, >and don't run executables blindly, etc., etc., etc., ... > >Basically, if you get bitten by Bliss (or any nasty program), you >probably deserved it. This is a hard way to learn a lesson, but >some people need to be taught using a baseball bat "attitude adjuster".
Given the choice between the right thing and the easy thing, people will tend to pick the easy thing, particularly when it comes to something like a computer.
In a sick way, I'm somewhat pleased to see these reports, and not just because I'm making a living writing Linux antiviral products for McAfee; if the malicious fuckwits of the world think that Linux is popular enough to scribble graffiti over, that means it's actually making it in the non-hobbyist world.
(And this is ANOTHER argument for something like the GGI; if you don't have to be root to run doom, it's just a little bit harder for an enterprising young virus to get in and fuck with the system.)
____ david parsons \bi/ Don't make the utopian mistake of assuming everyone \/ thinks just like you do.
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