regularly scheduled paranoia. Was: Re: Anti Virus

Lee Einer wrote:
>
> Actually, I think McAfee tried to
> be the McAfee of the linux world. A
> year or so ago, McAfee was making
> big noise about having identified a
> linux virus and having developed
> protection against it. Thing is, to
> be infected by this virus, you
> first had to be suckered into
> playing a video game on the
> internet under your root sign-on.
>
> Virus or IQ test? You be the
> judge...
> --
> Lee Einer
>


Is it coincidence that root's uid = 0,
which is how much intelligence is displayed
by doing that?

All the same, at the last installfest I went
to (not in Phx), there were a couple of young
lads, and an old fart, too, that never created
a unpriv login. They did everything as root,
just like in Windows 98.

George