[SGVLUG] Re: Linux security issues

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

> -----Original Message----- Of Matt Campbell
> 
> I just noticed this as it applies to a recent thread:
> 
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/24/2352234
> 
> It is a spam email trying to get people to download and 
> install malicious code.
> 
> Matt
> 

Hmmm... Now we've got TWO Matt's that scrounge around on /. Looking for
ways to kill my morning reading 4-year-old posts...

[but a good read nonetheless]

Favorites of the "funnies"

  "I love it!"

Linux geek comes across an obvious trojan. What does said geek do?
E-mail the site admin? DoS the source site? Noooooo. They set up a
sandbox environment and run it, to see what happens!


(Mind you, I'm no better. First time I got a computer virus, when I was
running MSDOS, my first reaction was to run a binary diff against a
clean version of the file, and disassemble the result to see what it
did. Do you know if there's a cure for this?)

  "Probabilities"

If the Antivirus companies were responsible, they'd have done a better
job.

If Microsoft was responsible, they wouldn't have included any source
code.

If SCO was responsible, they'd have included sourcecode and then sued
you for running it

All things taken into consideration, I'm with 'other' on this one ;)


  "Linux - Where the malware comes with the source"

Dammit why does Linux have to be so complicated, I mean damn you have to
compile your own viruses and everything!!!!


   "Re:Linux - Where the malware comes with the source"

You think you have it bad? I run Gentoo. I'm still compiling all the
files needed for this one to run.