Re: [LAD] Linux Malware

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From: Paul Davis <paul@...>

To: David Robillard <d@...>

Cc: Linux Audio Developers <linux-audio-dev@...>

Subject: Re: [LAD] Linux Malware

Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 12:38 am

On 3/23/12, David Robillard wrote:

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> On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 18:17 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
>> Hey guys!
>>
>> This is an Offtopic question, really, but I wanted to ask people I
>> know and people who are developers - what are the reasons there are
>> (almost) no viruses on Linux?
>>
>> The typical argument is that there are not too much users.
>
> Maybe "typical" in Redmond... the typical sane argument is that users on
> Lignux systems only have write access to their home directories, which
> the system does not run software from by default.

true, but a little reset of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or even better,
LD_PRELOAD in the user's .profile or whatever can go a long way
towards fixing that particular .... err, barrier ;)
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[LAD] Linux Malware, Louigi Verona, (Thu Mar 22, 3:17 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Gordon JC Pearc e, (Sun Mar 25, 9:06 am)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, David Robillard, (Sat Mar 24, 12:15 am)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Gabriel M. Beddingfield, (Sat Mar 24, 11:24 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Paul Davis, (Sat Mar 24, 12:38 am)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Gordon JC Pearc e, (Fri Mar 23, 8:52 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Jostein Chr. Andersen, (Fri Mar 23, 8:15 pm)

[LAD] [OT]: Re: Linux Malware, Lorenzo Sutton, (Fri Mar 23, 9:55 am)

Re: [LAD] [OT]: Re: Linux Malware, Louigi Verona, (Fri Mar 23, 11:12 am)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Emanuel Rumpf, (Thu Mar 22, 4:43 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Luis Garrido, (Thu Mar 22, 3:51 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Alexandre Prokoudine, (Thu Mar 22, 3:33 pm)