Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

From: Alan Shutko (ats_at_acm.org)
Date: 10/02/03

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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:04:48 -0500

    Michael D Schleif <mds@helices.org> writes:

    > In fact, just this week, I am engaged with a prominent software
    > development company, and every one of the developers develops on
    > various Linux boxen, and every one of them insists on running as root.

    Could you name names, so we know which imbeciles to avoid? The two
    Unix development houses I've worked at never did that.

    Of course, the parent post was wrong. Even as non-root, you have to
    worry about email viruses or click-thru vectors, because _they don't
    need root to work_. 

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