Right, because everyone patches as soon as a patch is released, right? Sorry sir, but not in the real world, which you're so fond of referring to. And this isn't even a knock against people who wait before patching. Often patches just introduce new vulnerabilities and/or break things. Patches can't be perfect, because if they were, the programmers would be godly, and if they were godly, why there wouldn't be vulnerabilities in the first place.
Still puzzled by your insistence that a Linux virus must be able to do evil while run as a user. Nowhere else i've looked have i found this to be a requirement of a virus. Then again, what do those other sources know; they don't call themselves "author IT Leader".
A virus != an exploit... very good! An exploit is a general vulnerability that can be attacked via a virus and other methods as well, such as a worm. Even if your executables are owned by root or bin or whatever, your machine can still get attacked and infected by worms.
Yep, those are worms. Can you prove why a worm (which can infect and spread from a machine with no help from the user at all) is less dangerous than a virus? Are you knowledgeable on IT?
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Right, because everyone patches as soon as a patch is released, right? Sorry sir, but not in the real world, which you're so fond of referring to. And this isn't even a knock against people who wait before patching. Often patches just introduce new vulnerabilities and/or break things. Patches can't be perfect, because if they were, the programmers would be godly, and if they were godly, why there wouldn't be vulnerabilities in the first place.
Still puzzled by your insistence that a Linux virus must be able to do evil while run as a user. Nowhere else i've looked have i found this to be a requirement of a virus. Then again, what do those other sources know; they don't call themselves "author IT Leader".
A virus != an exploit... very good! An exploit is a general vulnerability that can be attacked via a virus and other methods as well, such as a worm. Even if your executables are owned by root or bin or whatever, your machine can still get attacked and infected by worms.
Yep, those are worms. Can you prove why a worm (which can infect and spread from a machine with no help from the user at all) is less dangerous than a virus? Are you knowledgeable on IT?