* Jim Henderson
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:21:55 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
This is why they're just not a problem here. They can not proliferate like that.
So of course it makes sense to let the infected files lie dormant until someone uses a system like Windows to access them.
This doesn't seem like a good idea to me, but what do I know - I've only been using computers for nearly 30 years now.
And in that 30 years UNIX was used to build the Internet and there has yet to be someone who cared enough to write something that can hack root on the fly and self-perpetuate a payload to every system that accesses it. Again, remember what Yoda said .. " you must unlearn what you have learned. " I just want the question answered as to why Apple has about 20% of the laptop market and x amount of the "desktop" market yet no one has written a virus that can hop from Macbook to MacbookPro to Mac Mini to Mac Pro as they hop from Win2k to XP to Vista? Please just answer why a mainstream UNIX OS has not one virus for it? When I get a good answer about why UNIX has to have it's users execute the Trojan like a bunch click-click monkeys .. I'll probably stop being a pain in da butt about it. ;D -ben -- XO Communications IP Tier 2 OPS St Louis, MO. -- "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org