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Best defense against a Trojan is a box full of Trojans.
Really, if there was an actual virus, worm, trojan and etc. RIM would know and so would a lot of BB user's and especially us abuser's, it would spread like wildfire that the very first actual virus, worm and etc has been found.
Is it possible that someone could in fact develop a virus and what not for the BBOS, yes. All it takes is very good knowledge of the architect, blueprint, coding, server and what not to push one out.
For right now the only threat is from within RIM and those who have direct access to the uber important servers.
I could be absolutely wrong with my thought on this issue but at least I spoke my opinion.
Have a great night and just remember, the best tool against viruses and what not is understanding the internets and never download something that doesn't seem right.
Thnx, �Tripster�
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-05-10 11:40 PM -
Malware writers go where the systems are plain and simple.. Linux has such a tiny share in the overall picture that it simply is not efficient to write malware for it. Malware writers/Cyber criminals are more interested these days in making money and generally Linux users simply don't make up enough computers for them to be interested in and the small amount of users out there are generally sophisticated enough to avoid downloading malware in a lot cases.
Also, in a lot of cases it's not just the OS that's vulnerable but the software that's on it. Lets look at Adobe for example
09-06-10 09:50 PM - That argument simply isn't true and I've seen it wheeled out far too many times.Malware writers go where the systems are plain and simple.. Linux has such a tiny share in the overall picture that it simply is not efficient to write malware for it. Malware writers/Cyber criminals are more interested these days in making money and generally Linux users simply don't make up enough computers for them to be interested in and the small amount of users out there are generally sophisticated enough to avoid downloading malware in a lot cases.
Also, in a lot of cases it's not just the OS that's vulnerable but the software that's on it. Lets look at Adobe for example
What do you suppose runs the majority of web servers for instance? Linux if you didn't know.
Now the difference between linux and windows is this, linux was designed from the ground up with security in mind where as Windows was always designed with security as an after thought and also has a mind boggling amount of old code in it to maintain backwards compatability.
If all of the windows computers swapped to linux overnight 98% of current virus/trojan/malware writers would go out of business.
As for talking about things like adobe, the exploit starts from adobe but ultimately it's the OS's fault that it allows it to run under elevated privileges and run the exploit. For instance these exploits wouldn't work on Linux because even if the exploit works it can't run without the user running it as root.
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