Linux IS NOT impervious to Trojans?

[SkittleLinux18]

According to this article, those days are finished. Trojans are now invading Linux.

Yeah right! I'd just love to see it happen to my computer.

[rcgreen]

Linux never was immune to trojans. I left a
computer on the net for six months with the ssh
server available and a weak password. Eventually
someone brute forced in and got root.

If you run a normal workstation with no services
you are still quite safe. If you run as a normal user,
you will not fall prey to "point and click" exploits
such as arrive in the email, and your browser doesn't
automatically download and run executables.

As always, a wannabe hacker would have to con
you into installing the trojan yourself. I guess it
could happen. Google search a few porn keywords
click some links and you will encounter a site that
says "you need to install a codec to view this movie"

Luckily these trojans are mostly if not all Windows
viruses, but if one was a Linux type executable, and you
as root went ahead and installed it...

[sgosnell]

Linux is not immune to trojans, just more resistant than Windows. It's always possible to get malware as a trojan. If someone with the proper permissions got one put into a repository, it could easily infect many, many computers. All it takes is to get someone to install a package as root, and that happens all the time. The risk is low if you install only from trusted repositories, and still rather low even if you install from elsewhere, because the cost/benefit ratio is unfavorable to malware writers. It's harder to write them for Linux, and the target is much smaller, and the users are more aware, than the Window area, where it's ridiculously easy to write the malware, the target is worldwide, and the users are mostly completely ignorant of security and malware in general. Immune, no, but somewhat resistant.