Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads?

[Orlin Gueorguiev <orlin () baturov com>]

KDE(kdm to be more exact) disables per default the ability to login as root, 
thus the session is in 99,99% an user and not admin/root. So the only thing 
that might have happend is a user starting a console session with root 
rights. An thus your virus need to hack the console session or rootkit. I 
prefer playing with aliases more, for example putting  in .bashrc 'sudo 
apt-get update'='sudo <run malicios program> && apt-get update'.
I think everybody likes old school tricks. 

Cheers
Orlin

На Thursday 27 March 2008 15:31:11 Adam Pal написа:
>  "Wow,
>
> > send it to me -- I want to see this rarity!" :-)
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > ASK
>
> Hi Alex, i would like to add that i see no difference between the usual
> Windows-user and the linux-user who stays logged in as root on his KDE and
> surfs on the web (yes, such behavioral patterns exists *G*  ), so from this
> point of view, in certain circumstances linux viruses propagate similar to
> windows-viruses.
>
> regards
>
> Adam