From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758734AbYHFSGv (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:06:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753955AbYHFSFP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:05:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:52594 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753434AbYHFSFO (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:05:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:04:58 -0400 From: Rik van Riel To: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Eric Paris , Greg KH , malware-list@lists.printk.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning Message-ID: <20080806140458.5d7c86a2@cuia.bos.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <87zlnq6f27.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <1217883616.27684.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080804223249.GA10517@kroah.com> <20080805002618.GA18215@infradead.org> <1217897224.27684.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080805005415.GA10108@infradead.org> <87zlnq6f27.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Organization: Red Hat, Inc X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:41:04 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > I couldn't give a rats a** about > > windows viruses as they can't actually cause any harm on a Linux > > machine. > > My guess is that wine is good enough these days to run many Windows > worms actually. Firefox, Open Office and other applications are probably large and feature rich enough that making worms for them might be possible. Not being able to harm the operating system is not the same as not being able to harm the user. We still want some protection from the latter... -- All Rights Reversed