I'm even more worried about Microsoft aquiring China.
Anyway, on the matter of viruses:
As said earlier, the *NIX filesystem structure is indeed a wily beast that will only harm you if you try to harm it. As for infecting the boot parition scheme and whatnot (LILO), you might as well try to write a driver for a winmodem and get some respect (or be shamed?!) or be known as that bastard who wrote some LISP code (or some other language similiarily insane) that infects/etc/inittab. I for one think that it would be terribly difficult to infect a boot disk while a competent SA is running the box.
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I'm even more worried about Microsoft aquiring China.
/etc/inittab. I for one think that it would be terribly difficult to infect a boot disk while a competent SA is running the box.
Anyway, on the matter of viruses:
As said earlier, the *NIX filesystem structure is indeed a wily beast that will only harm you if you try to harm it. As for infecting the boot parition scheme and whatnot (LILO), you might as well try to write a driver for a winmodem and get some respect (or be shamed?!) or be known as that bastard who wrote some LISP code (or some other language similiarily insane) that infects