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 -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org