RE: Do we really need to worry about viruses
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel B. [mailto:dsb@smart.net]
> Sent: Friday, 3 October 2003 8:00 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Debian-User
> Subject: Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses
>
>
> "Jamin W. Collins" wrote:
> > .."
> >
> > Aye, but you do have backups right? Are your backup locations
> > accessible as mounted file systems where your user has ready
> > read/write access to them? I would certainly hope not.
>
> Do you backups every day? Every minute? Every instant?
>
> If not, the user's data is still vulnerable.
>
This is about risk analysis.
Loosing half a days work, or a days work is annoying, but your going to feel
pretty pleased if your backups are working and you only lose a days work.
I think a malicious process which occasionally corrupts random user files
would be much more of a pain.
It could be days/weeks/months before anyone notices.
Reminds me of an old excel macro virus in the 80s which changed the odd cell
here and there.
"When triggered, it picks a worksheet but the active one and loops a
thousand times to randomly select used cell that contains numeric value.
With 1% chance, it decreases or increases the cell value within 5%."
mj
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