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Malware Found Hidden In Screensaver On Gnome-Look
AndGodSed writes "OMG! UBUNTU! Reports the following: 'Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous 'waterfall' screensaver .deb file made available on popular artwork sharing site Gnome-Look.org. The .deb file installs a script with elevated privileges designed to perform a DDoS attack as well as keep itself updated via downloads. The dodgy screensaver in question has since been removed from gnome-look, and this incident was a very basic, if potentially successful, attempt.'" A similar report at Digitizor.com says that similar malware was also found in a theme called Ninja Black. For those affected, both sites also provide instruction on cleansing your system.
There would definitely be more, but I seriously doubt as much as Windows. Most of the drive-by exploits require root privileges to do anything serious to the machine. Almost everything is used without root privileges and so those types of attacks plain don't work. (I'm referring to Windows computers being infected just by being plugged into the internet.) I can't remember the last time I heard of something like this happening with linux.
Voluntarily installed malware by using social tactics and the like will still affect linux, but the amount of damage it can do to the local machine is still far less than the damage that can happen to Windows.
I would like to clarify that when I mean "not any more secure," I mean the current version of Windows 7 that implements a good permissions framework along with UAC. Mac OS X/*nix have a leg up with a strong permissions-based system from the very get-go.
One major difference is that malware on Windows can screw up the entire system where Linux will most likely only screw up one profile.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Which is it?
Is the goal to "get as much of the 3rd party software as possible into the repository" or is it to "raise the threshold of entry"
You began by claiming the 1st, but when problems with that were noted, you reverted to the 2nd.
Pick one please.
"His name was James Damore."
If you really believe people wouldn't blame it on Windows, you must be new here.
And that's fine, you smug asshole, except you to make an effort to keep it that way. The next time another god damn Linux zealot starts foaming at the mouth about how AWESOME Linux is, then you need to get off your fat, lazy ass and tell him to shut the fuck up on behalf of the rest of us.
Turning to a Linux advocate for thoughts on Microsoft is like asking Hitler how he felt about the Jews.
Shame there's not a patch for being an antisocial elitist.