linux-kernel - Re: [malware-list] Threat model for Unix Computers

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808081818430.4561@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:21:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Jörg Ostertag <Joerg.Ostertag@...ra.com>
cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@...com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, malware-list@...ts.printk.net,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [malware-list] Threat model for Unix Computers

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, J?rg Ostertag wrote:

> Another threads would be:
> 	- giving access to the Desktop-PC to guest-users for
> 		 "just let me look up something in the internet"
> 	  and the guest-user on the Desktop not informing about the (in his point of
> 	  view) urgent installation of there beloved
> 	  Browser-malware^H^H^H^H^H -adware ^H^H^H^H^H -extention

if you give the guest user access to your account this is the same as the 
clueless desktop user.

if you make a new account for that user the standard *nix permissions and 
user seperation come to your rescue, they may infect that temporary 
account, but that won't infect the normal user.

David Lang
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