[NBLUG/talk] Vulnerability of Linux to virus attacks

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Sat Jan 5 22:01:36 PST 2008


Bob Blick wrote:
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> I would say the biggest problems are of the pebkac type. There again,
> Linux machines are probably less vulnerable because Windows users are
> more likely to either be running as admin or to grant admin privileges
> to a malware app. Again, a pebkac issue. The lowest common denominator
> of users run Windows. See:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebkac

I always call this a layer 8 problem.



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