Ignore the Linux worm hype, say security vendors

[tsunami]

tsunami, you're replying to a thread that's almost 2 years old now..

oops, i didnt look at how old the thread was. Oh well nevermind.

I agree completely, you can have malware cause untold issues on a machine without it ever having admin/root rights.

The biggest issue we see at the moment at work are linux boxes that get hacked and added into botnets rather than them being infected with malware. I put that down to linux/unix being used far more for servers. If it were used way more on the desktop then we would start seeing far more socially engineered attacks.