Anyway I should point out to anyone using the internet that you have to
1. download a malicious executable
2. Make it executable ....they are not by default unless you unpack say a zip as root...plus it has to be a elf linux executable or say bash/python/perl etc script. if you are getting that involved then common sense starts to creep in.
3. run it.
Now those 3 steps are manual...you have to do it and do it as root.
Far removed from the windows auto download and run mechanisms present. If you have the technical know how to do the above (and how many noobs here have to be hand held through the process to get anything to happen with wanted files)
If you can do such things I doubt if you are silly enough to grab yerself a virus... and then you would have to search hard to get a linux one...is all this likely.
If you really were stupid enough yet capable you would simply do this to your file obtained as spot and then play suicide as root... so again the only thing that can break your system is YOU.....
Spot...seems like a cheapskate way to avoid making the system true multiuser and provides NO real protection.
Just don't like seeing people waste their time...not like we have an endless supply of it
mike
