18 May
2008
18 May
'08
2:26 p.m.
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Sam Cater wrote:
Viruses that work with Linux are exceptionally rare, and even then to do any serious damage they need the root user password.
Surely malware would exploit some vulnerability in some software you have using a technique such as a buffer overflow attack, which might not require any root user password (ie. you would not get a password promt to enter your root password)?
-Srdjan