[ale] Linux Virus

[Dow Hurst]

It really is wonderful that normal users operate in user space and not
as root on a regular basis!  As time goes by, more and more I appreciate
how that fact separates the Unix world of productivity from the MS world
of woe!
Dow

Tomas wrote:
> 
> Ive thought of a way to make a linux virus.  Its fairly straight forward.  Instead of just reproducing itself in a binary it changes the binary it copies itself to suid root, then when any user runs it, they run it as root and can spread it to any binary on the system.  freaky huh?
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> Tomas
> Maxie Zeus
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> 
> If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
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