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To: Don Green who wrote (5909)3/30/1999 1:30:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14451
 
As a technologist, I don't don't consider screwing up a screwed up OS(borg virus) as much of a challenge. I would be impressed by someone who successfully created a virus that infected and spread in Linux/unix machines. But if impressing the technically ignorant is the goal, exposing another of the hundreds of zits of the various borg viri is sufficient. Ya see Don, viri spread in the wind. Linux operates in the world of the spirit. I've already demonstrated at my company how easy it is to take over authentication in an NT network, it took me all of 30 minutes. Yes I cheated and did it with a Linux box.

Tom Watson tosiwme.



To: Don Green who wrote (5909)3/31/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Kirk Vanden  Respond to of 14451
 
I don't believe it is nearly as easy to write a
virus for Linux/UNIX given the way the OS handles
file permissions. A virus just would not be able to
get to many critical system files unless it was
unleashed by someone using the root account. The
kernel is just too well protected compared to how
easy it is for any windows program or virus to get
access to all files on the system.



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