[ale] Trojan mpg123 alert

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Sun Jan 19 23:52:51 EST 2003


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Marvin Dickens wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 04:03, Stephen F Nicholas wrote:
> > Slap me if I read this incorrectly.  People surf the web under their root
> > account ?? :-(
> 
> Nobody I know logs in as root (Except to perform system maintenance),
> much less surfs as root: That's insane.

That'll change as Linux mass-markets. Lindows doesn't (by default) even give
you the option not to be root.

later,
chris
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