Re: Viruses

[jasta <jasta gotlinux org>]

You are stupid.  There can't exactly be too damn many "viruses" (most are
called exploits anyway because UNIX people don't wanna destroy files they wanna
own them) because nobody is stupid enough to run anything as root.

On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, lauris@ariman.ee wrote:
> This topic is more general, but as GNOME seems to be concerned
> about ease of use it should adress it somehow.
> 
> As soon, as Linux (BSD etc.) will become mainstream we are
> probably facing a load of viruses (trojans, worms etc.).
> These will start to proliferate the same way they do in WinMac
> world for the simple reason that all installing in unix have
> to be done as superuser.
> Until now most Linux users have been a kind of hackers, who
> know, what they do. But things start to change... And the
> average users are always willing to download strange binary
> programs from the dark corners of net.
> 
> Does anybody have a good solution? Or am I a bit paranoic?
> 
> I have currently following ideas:
> 1. Force the use of signed packages (seems a bit oppressive)
> 2. All installers should default to executing scripts/programs
>    from installable package only if these are signed and trusted.
>    The same requirement stands for installing suid root binaries.
> 
> Lauris Kaplinski
> 
> 
> 
> 
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