[LAD] Linux Malware

[Paul Davis]

On 3/23/12, David Robillard <d at drobilla.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 18:17 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
>> Hey guys!
>>
>> This is an Offtopic question, really, but I wanted to ask people I
>> know and people who are developers - what are the reasons there are
>> (almost) no viruses on Linux?
>>
>> The typical argument is that there are not too much users.
>
> Maybe "typical" in Redmond... the typical sane argument is that users on
> Lignux systems only have write access to their home directories, which
> the system does not run software from by default.

true, but a little reset of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or even better,
LD_PRELOAD in the user's .profile or whatever can go a long way
towards fixing that particular .... err, barrier ;)