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On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Dale wrote |
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> Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through |
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> java/javascript/flash? |
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There are two levels of "infection"... |
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1) One-off execution of bad stuff when you visit a web page. |
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2) A more permanent infection that survives restarting the web browser, |
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and rebooting the machine. But that would need to be linux executable. |
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> Or would the infection at the least be limited to that user? |
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Usually, unless they find a privilege escalation hole. Then again, |
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it's the user-info (bank login and password, credit card number, etc) |
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that's really profitable for organized crime. |
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> How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? |
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If/when it results in the end of Flash, that's an improvement. The |
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thing I worry about is that anything "powerful enough" can be (ab)used. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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