From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931781381F3 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 08:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C84B3E0A44; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 08:52:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com (mail-wg0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C86BE0933 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2013 08:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id z11so7757199wgg.3 for ; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:52:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3eghlKeip4qmHnI8/4OXOZkMnu7INJSynX9SnRpPTaM=; b=IYJRXrTJVNaV+6aCNq/JHmeB4H29WwTFlHtITAF2kYZF7TZE7d7BdyOB9TKrgnaBnt VKZj3gL0M520I6pEV/5AZwIN4bb/CtTr5S54707eniw/JQDp+hzU40cKs63LQSbSqfVd VrdMZZbSKqePvZxCUqLLAEYqNXV0rlcN5gT2RwHqckHyLzO+WoaYDPZLmBIRA38I0z04 qRAyr5QZSIv7u3OUbwIgxja8ynlpjLboNCvQsBzz3ZUFmtbC/V+Rp2+chy5lPOFAWGFR 1g8lX1Aq7nAzSzNap0dX0Kqo+SrlnG3hqjx730StWCl63MESNoUb91HxTVGswx1giPx/ G9XQ== X-Received: by 10.194.249.129 with SMTP id yu1mr8051360wjc.10.1373100758909; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-126-15.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.126.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w4sm13233402wia.9.2013.07.06.01.52.36 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51D7DA60.6010203@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 10:50:40 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130701 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses References: <51D728BA.4060906@gmail.com> <51D73FFF.9020200@iinet.net.au> <51D746E5.1040606@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51D746E5.1040606@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7ba1d309-9f8f-40e0-aed1-45e09718be3d X-Archives-Hash: 7d5873403150c85e1d1441e99d64a7bd On 06/07/2013 00:21, Dale wrote: > I'm still trying to figure out what he thought he would accomplish tho. > I can't get my head wrapped around that yet. That's easy to answer. The fellow probably doesn't know much. If you want a brilliant example, just go read a wide bunch of threads on the Gentoo Forums. You will find some gems in there, you'll also find a level of cluelessness that is hard to wrap your brains around, and the noise to signal ratio is out the roof. Fellows working in stores (often at low wages) are not any different. Technically, he's not wrong - any OS is just as susceptible to viruses as any other, you just have to get over the first hurdle which is getting code to run. The overall design of Windows has historically made this somewhat easy, and the overall design of Windows users made it easier still. Using Occam's Razor, I'd guess the fellow behind the counter is not too different from fellows behind counters everywhere, and he's running on one of these motivations: 1. He will punt what earns him more money (he's in sales after all) 2. He will defend the thing he sells (usually by talking down the competition) 3. Just repeats some line he heard somewhere and doesn't really understand the topic (but is convinced he does) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com