Re: Virus on Linux

Harald Milz (hm@seneca.muc.de)
Sun, 18 Jan 98 18:46 CET

Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
> If a virus is executed by root, much more is lost. For example, if the

If _something_ is executed as root, viri aren't the greatest problem.
Properly administered machines shouldn't be affected too much. This is true
for all OSes with a UID concept.