On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:50:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Nope. > > That's just bad advice. Not really. > Just because Linux and other Unix variants haven't been bombarded with > viruses, worms, and the like (yet) is not a good reason to ignore the > possibilty and reality of the situation. True, however, on the other paw, we do have exactly what Vineet says: An environment that is fairly aggressively hostile to hostile code, and a userbase that tends to know better than to run day-to-day tasks and untrusted code as root. -- Baloo
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