Re: [MiNT] bug/virus???

[Katherine Ellis <kellis@fdn.com>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Steven Moore wrote:

> 
> > All folders/files on all his partitions got cleanly deleted. 
> 
> Cleanly? That *doesn't* sound like a virus. A virus would just wipe
> the FAT (and I never heard of an XFS aware virus either).

> > Best imo is to run the AES not as root. 
> 
> Does n.aes actually *run* as a non-root user? (Oh, and it would make no
> difference to a virus, if you had memory protection switched off.)

Yes you can run the naes from a user, non root.

I think that if it was a clean call. to delete all partitionb, being NON
root would have helped.
Unless goes in supervisor and bypass the whole thing, in which case
wouldn't help. 


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