On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:01:33AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 apr 20, 23:01:28, Joe wrote: > > > > My feeling is that running as root is considered an extreme no-no in > > Linux (probably apart from the toy distros) and it is this that makes > > Linux viruses non-viable. > > Compromising regular user accounts is bad enough already. > > https://xkcd.com/1200/ Thanks for that one -- I think this brings both of my points home pretty well :-) > Compromising the user account that is used to gain root privileges is > almost the same as gaining root privileges (the additional step needed > is in most cases trivial). ...but perhaps still unnecessary work and risk of detection: a happy malware running under your main user account is a happy malware, after all. Cheers -- t
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