Re: mailx (how is it able to send email?!?)

Bit Twister wrote:
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 14:46:35 +0000, Robert Hull wrote:
The other reason being the more important one - they just plain can't
work

Robert, thats just bull, trojans works as fine, no matter what OS, script using bugs in software works as fine as viruses.


I would hate to think we are safer because of the variable location
of ascii configuration files. :(

The variable location of things makes it more difficult to make a script/program that affects all GNU/Linux distros, but there are those that affects a number of distros, like the Ramen which did hit a number of RedHat based distros, but not debian based. The more distros you have to consider in a virus the lager it will be and the more difficult it's to hide.
Linux is safer if you don't go around logged in as root user all the time.


Security through obscurity has not seemed to have helped Micro$not very much.

There are many big design flaws in microsoft, no matter what they do and keep the backwards compability, it will be a security risk on each machine it's installed. They could have started anew with the 64bit version, but no.

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//Aho
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