From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
To: joseph.bueno@trader.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there something that can be done against this ???
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:08:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B7A3C03.3FD293CD@idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NOEJJDACGOHCKNCOGFOMKENKDCAA.davids@webmaster.com> <3B7924C7.31923A8@trader.com>
joseph.bueno@trader.com wrote:
[...]
> How many users are there that use a specific user account to read
> their emails on their Linux workstation ?
> I don't, I use my account to read mails, write documents,
> develop programs,etc. So even if a malicious program does
> not do any arm to the system, it can at least destroy or corrupt my
> own files and I will loose time restoru=ing from last backup and
> rebuilding recently modified files.
>
So you aren't reading mail as root - which is what any windows
user do. I believe few people read mail from a "mail-only"
account, but reading the mail is seldom dangerous. If someone
mails you a unknown program though - definitely run that
from a test account if you tries it at all.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-15 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-13 1:24 S2464 (K7 Thunder) hangs -- some lessons learned Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-13 1:41 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-13 5:12 ` Christopher Abbey
2001-08-13 12:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-13 15:18 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-13 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-13 15:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-13 16:00 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-13 18:56 ` Is there something that can be done against this ??? Mircea Ciocan
2001-08-13 19:19 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-13 19:19 ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-08-13 19:20 ` Mircea Ciocan
2001-08-13 19:41 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-08-13 19:53 ` Chris Meadors
2001-08-13 20:09 ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-08-13 22:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 8:12 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-13 19:24 ` Peter T. Breuer
2001-08-13 19:34 ` Eli Carter
2001-08-13 19:32 ` Ben Collins
2001-08-13 19:48 ` Ronald Jeninga
2001-08-13 20:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-14 8:02 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-08-14 8:16 ` joseph.bueno
2001-08-14 10:00 ` David Schwartz
2001-08-14 12:42 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-14 17:10 ` David Schwartz
2001-08-14 13:16 ` joseph.bueno
[not found] ` <9lb8vp$10q$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-14 16:34 ` Colonel
2001-08-15 9:08 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2001-08-14 17:47 ` Scott Wood
2001-08-14 21:27 ` S2464 (K7 Thunder) hangs -- some lessons learned Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-14 22:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-14 1:45 ` Paul G. Allen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-13 20:00 Is there something that can be done against this ??? Per Jessen
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