Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

But again, in either of those cases not being root does not necessarily
prevent your machine from being infected and/or the possible results
thereof. Everyone remembers Melissa,
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1999-04.html, if that were designed for
a Linux system, not being root would not stop/prevent it at all.

OK, but that required that you have macros set to autoexecute - if I
remember right, that was the default setting for Office. In Linux..
most people use OpenOffice.org which is set by default to not auto
execute macros. You have to explicitly click the Enable Macros
button.. and only then will any embedded macros run.

This does not account for buffer overflow exploits etc...I seem to
remember one recently (in the past year) that would give you root
access to a remote machine... scary except that you had to be root
already to get into the state where the exploit could be triggered..
giving you root access to something you were already logged into as
root... so not much of an exploit.


C.
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