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In aus.computers.linux on Fri, 08 Jan 1999 09:18:12 +0000
Louis Hissink <hissinkl@bigpond.com> wrote:
>Zebee Johnstone wrote:
>
>> While a virus is possible in Unix,  (someone has written one) it's
>> not common, not like the DOS world.  So you don't need a scanner
>> for your unix systems, they won't be attacked.
>>
>
>This means that nasty people who write viruses actually don't understand C.
>Hmmm, now what demographic would that imply.

Umm.. so tell me what DOS viruses are written in?  (the ones that aren't
in assembler...)

No, the problem with Unix is that  it has all this memory and file
protection stuff.  

Not to mention that the things you can attack often vary from
system to system.

Unix can  be attacked, no doubt.  Trojan horses and buffer
overflows and so on.

But the idea of a virus, self replication code that can attach itself to
a program the user runs and can do horrible things... well due to the
way memory and filesystems on Unix work, that's rather hard to do.

Zebee