From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 3:49:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F6B214DFB for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 03:49:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:52:42 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179669@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: 'zxu' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Requiry Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:47:08 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: zxu [SMTP:zxu@sript.com.cn] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 7:25 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Requiry > > Gentleman, > There are so many virus fo Windows, what's about FreeBSD, Linux and > other > UNIX operation systems? [ML] Well, there have been some attempts, but unices run on very different hardware so that a binary virus has problems to spread on a different architecture, and usually sensible users do not run with superuser privileges so that the virii have problems spreading since a normal mortal cannot alter a system binary. Furthermore, there seems to be a maturity of the users in play, as well: the people knowledgeable enough to write a virus which would have a chance to spread among unix machines are usually no longer infantile enough to actually write one :) Shall we say, they find other things (kernel hacking comes to mind) more challenging than a mere virus. /Marino > Sincerely, > huining zhang > June 14,1999 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message