Re: [malware-list] Threat model for Unix Computers

[david]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, J?rg Ostertag wrote:

> Another threads would be:
> 	- giving access to the Desktop-PC to guest-users for
> 		 "just let me look up something in the internet"
> 	  and the guest-user on the Desktop not informing about the (in his point of
> 	  view) urgent installation of there beloved
> 	  Browser-malware^H^H^H^H^H -adware ^H^H^H^H^H -extention

if you give the guest user access to your account this is the same as the 
clueless desktop user.

if you make a new account for that user the standard *nix permissions and 
user seperation come to your rescue, they may infect that temporary 
account, but that won't infect the normal user.

David Lang
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