At 07:03 PM 10/14/99 GMT, you wrote:
>
>for example, restrict a user's access to control panel so that they can't
>alter the network configuration, even restrict their access so they can't
>right click on Network Neighborhood and change the network configuration,
>all they have to do is access the
At 02:31 PM 10/14/99 -0400, Brian Engle wrote:
>http://www.ciac.org/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html
>
>UNIX AT&T Attack virus
>UNIX Ebola
>
>
>and as someone already stated, bliss for the linux platform, not sure if
>it's distribution dependent or kernel dependent, or ev
At 11:52 AM 10/14/99 -0600, Clare Smith wrote:
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Steve says: Whoops...Speaking of inadvertly doing this worng...Just sent an
empty message via a mistake I made in Eudora. Speaking of Windoz,
misdesign. OK, this is kind of sociological and hope I won't get snarled at
for it.
There haven't been th
resist!)
>
>thanks much
>c
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>I have
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Clare Smith wrote:
> One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of
> viruses that Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I said I
> hadn't heard of any successful unix/linux viruses. I did some research this
> morning and still can't co
for example, restrict a user's access to control panel so that they can't
alter the network configuration, even restrict their access so they can't
right click on Network Neighborhood and change the network configuration,
all they have to do is access the windows help file, look up network
config
t; Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:43 PM
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> I have never heard of a unix system having a virus problem...
> EVER! I have
> never known of a virus checker for unix. I don't believe
> thes
> One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of
viruses that
> Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I said I hadn't
heard of any
> successful unix/linux viruses. I did some research this morning and still
can't come
> up with any hard data. Any ideas?
Vi
There was a virus "demo" created for linux called bliss or .bliss.
It would attach itselft to binaries and propagate much like win/dos
based viruses.
However the only damage it could do would be to files that it owned.
Unless it was part of a trojan and gained root perms it wouldn't be
a big thre
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Subject: RE: [techtalk] Question for the group
I have never heard of a unix system having a virus problem... EVER! I have
never known of a virus checker for unix. I don'
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:27:41 -0600, "Clare Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of
>viruses that Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I
>said I hadn't heard of any successful unix/linux viruses. I did some
>research
Hi
there Clare.
I'm
not sure .. but this would prolly classify as my personal thought why not ;P
Linux/Unix as such don't have "Viruses" in the windows
sence .. maynely becuase of the privalige system unix uses when it comes to
running applications .. and the way memory is used .. one
I have never heard of a unix system having a virus problem... EVER! I have
never known of a virus checker for unix. I don't believe these systems are
immune to viruses, however. I think that it's just a matter of the system
not being widely popular, and the fact that the hardware platforms in
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