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[jdd sur free <jdanield@xxxxxxx>]

> > Of course they are, but stupid is incredibly limited as a Linux user as
> > compared to Windows, by design. 

yesterday evening, this was demonstrated (for me). One of my daugther 
was on internet and received a thrilling message: "your computer is 
under attack!", there was a list of files given with a menu "delete" 
or "cancel". she chosed "delete"

then she had "write the setup". "Yes" or "no", she said "yes"...

then she phoned me (she is 180 miles away from me).

I could say: don't worry and go ahead. AFAIK nothing was changed on 
his computer (openSUSE 10.2).

I don't know what is this. probably an advertisement for some 
anti-virus software (I think it too visible to be a real attack, even 
for windows!), but how can be one so dumb to say yes in such 
circomstances? probably out of surprise, a nicely fitted message...

the "best" windows virus I know could also be used in Linux: do you 
remember these messages asking to remove from the system the file with 
the nice small bear icon? that was a necessary file for windows to 
work and the user was only tricked to remove it hiself.

if you make a nice message "given the dns exploit discovered recently, 
you have IMMEDIATELY to go root and remove the /etc/inittab file", how 
many users will follow the message (and I choosed for the example a 
not too serious instruction)...

jdd


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Jean-Daniel Dodin
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