Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote > >> Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a >> copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had >> windoze installed on them at all. >> >> BTW, I have been known to open those attachments before. I usually open >> them with kwrite or something and try to see what is human readable in >> there. Most is machine language but there is usually a small portion >> that is human readable. They sent it and I'm nosy that way. lol > The bad guys go after the "low hanging fruit", i.e. the easiest > targets. Years ago, it was Internet Explorer. This also included > Outlook and Outlook Express, which were glorified IE frontends. There > were many "drive-by-downloads", thanks to Active-X (aka "Active-Hacks"). > > MS has gotten its act together on IE, so the bad guys are now going > after other stuff. The "other stuff" is cross-platform stuff like Java > and Javascript and Adobe Acrobat and Flash (known affectionately as > "Schlockwave Trash"). So yes... it can happen here. > > I've been Java-free for years. I use Noscript and Flashblock on > Firefox. I keep Opera around for those sites that don't work on > Firefox. I also use mupdf instead of the bloated Acrobat Reader > monstrosity. >
Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through java/javascript/flash? Or would the infection at the least be limited to that user? How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
