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

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Message-ID: <a36005b50808081844r41d5761enb41d490bfa41f965@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:44:24 -0700
From:	"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...il.com>
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, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Jörg Ostertag <Joerg.Ostertag@...ra.com> wrote:
>        - 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

Install the xguest package on Fedora (yum install xguest), use the
fast user switch applet, and be done:

http://dwalsh.fedorapeople.org/xguest/

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/14778.html