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 D5EE11381F3 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 13:24:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DFEDE0A7C; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 13:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gh0-f179.google.com (mail-gh0-f179.google.com [209.85.160.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5DFC6E076D for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 13:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gh0-f179.google.com with SMTP id f16so1657920ghb.24 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:24:06 -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:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cT+vqq4sCrv88OwbrSJYcJ2coYJ9emCdPVjymesq1Uc=; b=RPd7i+RrdZPNbA+xsxgg4wYa+5P62IUVRobhUGX1p4fvWBkVv7hiaSNUBobRpqahbN 8WX1fosSGJ3QxAx8KfBXKD9LtRJx4ZDwI87d0eYBFg4TzLQvuKqC4bwJQx4NQkxXj5Ky xHuCgCB3K5wE56pGl+UfkFW1Ko/qGntfAYVwXRf+hISPabgg9m8FkyAD0gwecPkhDlqv TBSj13Kzd9llz8xkFHjeO0hLXivNUh9IrQbvD+nOEe8XEtoFHsJWDw4qS5SpUErrDS9c s0xK5y6oSFgqWMjwunNLf6am6H2+Vq4hhy/FPhAHNmh3pdYlW4tm/caJMUQBo55078Ar a6rQ== X-Received: by 10.236.13.36 with SMTP id a24mr11958717yha.200.1373289846546; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-120-51.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.120.51]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id s65sm37068308yhs.14.2013.07.08.06.24.04 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51DABD73.1080609@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:24:03 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17.1 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> <20130707092526.GA14811@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20130707092526.GA14811@waltdnes.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6df6a658-c3d0-478d-8215-906f1e7956a9 X-Archives-Hash: 5a1a580874f6e5a31dfd3120ac12033e Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote > >> Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a >> copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had >> windoze installed on them at all. >> >> BTW, I have been known to open those attachments before. I usually open >> them with kwrite or something and try to see what is human readable in >> there. Most is machine language but there is usually a small portion >> that is human readable. They sent it and I'm nosy that way. lol > The bad guys go after the "low hanging fruit", i.e. the easiest > targets. Years ago, it was Internet Explorer. This also included > Outlook and Outlook Express, which were glorified IE frontends. There > were many "drive-by-downloads", thanks to Active-X (aka "Active-Hacks"). > > MS has gotten its act together on IE, so the bad guys are now going > after other stuff. The "other stuff" is cross-platform stuff like Java > and Javascript and Adobe Acrobat and Flash (known affectionately as > "Schlockwave Trash"). So yes... it can happen here. > > I've been Java-free for years. I use Noscript and Flashblock on > Firefox. I keep Opera around for those sites that don't work on > Firefox. I also use mupdf instead of the bloated Acrobat Reader > monstrosity. > Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through java/javascript/flash? Or would the infection at the least be limited to that user? How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!