Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/16/2009 08:26 AM, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this?
> > >
> > >      $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb
> > What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this?
> > sudo rm -rf The Great American Novell / Movie
>
> Joe Wannabe needs to learn more in order to do him self real harm.
> Shouldn't it be:
>
> sudo rm -rf "The Great American Novell"

That's the whole point.  People coming from a gooey environment 
don't think (about such things).

> ? ;-)
> And, without testing it, I'm pretty sure that
>
> sudo rm -rf / 
>
> is trapped and subject to special handling. At least, it should be,
> IMHO.

I don't believe it.  Show us!

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