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Old 04-03-2009, 06:20 PM   #1
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LXer: Are you safe? Internet security on Linux, don't fool yourself!


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The other day a friend came to me with a problem, he had been surfing the internet for information about the conficker worm virus. As he misspelled the name as configer virus he didn't find a lot of real information on this virus. What he did find was a lot of links to site which were indicated by google as harmful to your computer. You know the kind where google says near the link: This site can harm your computer.

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Old 04-04-2009, 05:21 AM   #2
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Oh whatever, this article is silly.

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When he came to me we first booted his computer from a live cd and scanned his harddisk for malware. While it is true there are not much (general)viruses which we have to be afraid of, there's a lot of malware like worms and backdoor trojans, which are also detected by virus scanners. This is the reason why you should still be running a virus scanner on Linux.
As we didn't find any malware,
It's true, you should be running a firewall, but in most cases a router firewall also exists (and most routers run Linux).
 
  


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