<story><title>Linux ransomware in the wild</title><url>https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060828.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abrowne</author><text>Not trying to blame the user, just trying to understand: why would someone ever run a web browser as root? A text editor to edit system files, ok, but a browser?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CJefferson</author><text>Seeing as the user&amp;#x27;s main problem is their home directory was encrypted, the root doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like it would make any difference...&lt;p&gt;Better would be easier ways to run browsers (and all applications) inside protected systems of some kind, so even if they are hacked they can&amp;#x27;t touch anything outside their own cache directory, and creating downloaded files.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linux ransomware in the wild</title><url>https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060828.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abrowne</author><text>Not trying to blame the user, just trying to understand: why would someone ever run a web browser as root? A text editor to edit system files, ok, but a browser?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lstyls</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty common for noobs to do this when they have messed up permissions, because permissions errors magically go away.&lt;p&gt;The OP on the Gentoo thread seems more than competent enough to know how to fix permissions issues though, so I agree it&amp;#x27;s a headscratcher.</text></comment>