Re: Did The Chinese Violate Any Treaties?
- From: "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:27:03 GMT
"Herb Schaltegger" <herb.schaltegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What an overblown bunch of nonsense. That "worm" requires the user to
download, decompress and execute the file then enter their admin password
to
cause any damage.
And you'd be surprised at the number of worms on Windows platforms that
require almost exactly the same thing.
The weak point will almost always be the user. :-(
Anyway, I've got a WOPR of a solution to the problem. :-)
(anyway more to the other person who claimed I was nitpicking, yes, I was.
And Herb knows it. It was partly directed at him, but more at the more
ignorant people who will always think a Mac is safer "just because". (and
for the record I've seen more linux servers hacked in my work than windows
boxes. In that case it really comes down to the quality of the admins.)
You might just as well whip up a shell script to do the same thing and
send
the user an email telling him to execute it. That's NOT the definition of
a
true virus, which can propagate, replicate and cause damage on its own
without user intervention, like those thousands of Windows exploits in the
wild.
--
You can run on for a long time,
Sooner or later, God'll cut you down.
~Johnny Cash
.
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