[gentoo-user] Re: Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-07-08, Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through > java/javascript/flash? Possibly. It would require use of a privledge-escalation exploit (which have been found in the past for Linux). > Or would the infection at the least

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-07-05, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son >> is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to >> find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the