Thx for the reply.
The router has a firewall and I use Guarddog just to stay in the habit of having a firewall in the event I no longer use a router.
It's kind of like wearing suspenders with a belt I know but I'll have a working firewall and knowledgeable in it's use if it's ever needed.
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When would you like to know you have been rooted? Now or in maybe 20 odd days?
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As for running rkhunter whenever I think of it, I'm pretty much a creature of habit when I surf.
I go to the same places and those places normally aren't much different than here.
They're also places I read about in places just like here.
I was after all referred to LQ by the Slack website sooooo.
When I google, normally my googling is prefaced with what is.
When it isn't, it's geared for self improvement or leisure reading such as free ebooks.
I'm not paranoid but I'm not aloof either.
I figure rkhunter is available and has been around awhile for a reason so I use it.
This still begs the question though, how is anyone going to get a rootkit or anything else into my system with my permission, bios code notwithstanding.
Nothing gets put in my system by me unless it comes from slackbuilds, slacky.eu or some other well known trusted source like hplip at sourceforge or nvidia drivers from nvidia.
Since the root password is required to install anything whatsoever, I fail to see how anything could be put into my system without my knowledge or permission.
In reality, the worst I could foresee happening is someone would piss me off by deleting my music and replacing it with the Michael Jackson Thriller album.
Then again, even my music is backed up.
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MS users now have the dubious honour of being able to flash their bios (for some makers) while booted into MS. Malware written in bios code can not be detected by Linux or MS.
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I hadn't gotten wind of that but am grateful for the heads up.
It also means that everyone is pretty much defenseless against an attack such as that.
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Suggest wife move to Linux...lol.
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Yeah right, good luck with that one.
I'd be safer flirting with the counter girl at McDonald's in her full view.