Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:04:58 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning |
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On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:41:04 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes: > > > I couldn't give a rats a** about > > windows viruses as they can't actually cause any harm on a Linux > > machine. > > My guess is that wine is good enough these days to run many Windows > worms actually.
Firefox, Open Office and other applications are probably large and feature rich enough that making worms for them might be possible.
Not being able to harm the operating system is not the same as not being able to harm the user. We still want some protection from the latter...
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