I must make the point that whilst Linux does restrict what a virus can do, if I lose my home dir it will take me a lot of time to restore from backup and get back to where I was. Yes, you wont lose the system, but very inconvenient non the less!
Mandrake is aiming at the desktop, and the less experianced user so avenues to infect using social engineering (imagine this virus set up like the Anna Korn... virus? Yes its hard to execute stuff unintentionally under Linux, but with a combination of inexperiance and misconfiguration, I am sure more than one person will mangage it ... And people VERY often will execute cute files sent to them by relatives under windows - what is to stop them doing the same under Linux. My fear is that this is a baby step down this path ... BillK On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 08:58, Joseph Braddock wrote: > The difference is that Linux restricts access by default, Windows grants it. It is >true, that some (many) people login as root for convenience, and they could also >install everything (although Mandrake at least questions starting some services >automatically, if you do select them all). But, even so, it is still much more >difficult to inflict a virus on Linux than on Windows. It is a user's responsibility >to install security updates and many distributions make it relatively easy and >painless. Again, as contrasted with Windows, when Microsoft actually admits a >security problem (usually after someone else has gone public with it), their patches >create more vulnerabilities. Hardly a good example. >
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