[Cialug] New Virus Exploit

[David Champion]

IMHO the biggest problem with Windows viruses is that 99% of Windows 
users (at least in the home / small business arena) run with 
Administrator privileges, which makes life easy for virus writers.

On a *nix system where you're running as a "normal" user most of the 
time, they have to be a lot craftier, and find something like a buffer 
overflow exploit of a service to be able to run at a privileged level 
and install a rootkit.

-dc

Jerry Weida wrote:
> All I have to say is wow.
> 
> On 11/3/05, Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org> wrote:
> 
>>Did you guys read about this? I was surprised to learn about this new
>>virus exploit.
>>
>>FYI ...
>>http://www.security.ithub.com/article/
>>Virus+Scanners+Made+Moot+by+New+Exploit/164278_1.aspx?
>>kc=ewnws110305dtx1k0000599
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Stuart