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Old 08-24-2013, 06:06 AM   #1
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what is the most Linux Distribution that is most secure
against malware [bots in special];

i saw from a book cyber warefare:
kaspersky report:


linux total malware: 1898
freeBSD total malware: 43
Unix total malware: 212
windows total malware: 2247659


there is some kind of software sandbox of browser in linux?
 
Old 08-24-2013, 07:17 AM   #2
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I advise you to do two things:
Do some research on the Linux file system. That will give you a good idea of how secure Linux is.

Browse the Security sub-forum on this board for threads that deal with such issues. They have quite a bit of information.
 
Old 08-24-2013, 08:14 AM   #3
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you can suggests me tools that can help protect browsers ?

like sandbox,

linux have browser sandbox?
 
Old 08-24-2013, 12:10 PM   #4
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there is in linux browser sandbox or similar software
that can help protect surfing in the internet and against spear fishing ?
 
Old 08-25-2013, 11:39 AM   #5
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The only thing that will protect you against any sort of phishing is common sense!
 
Old 08-25-2013, 02:47 PM   #6
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worms and bots will not Spread in my lan[in windows computers] in bittorrent use ?

i want to download movies Through bittorrent in linux,

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Old 08-25-2013, 02:48 PM   #7
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what is the most Linux Distribution that is most secure against malware [bots in special];
All or none as "malware" has a different meaning on Windows.


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there is some kind of software sandbox of browser in linux?
As Randicus Draco Albus tried to point out the "traditional" UNIX is to run processes under different owners, with different capabilities and out of different home directories. We call that [I]separation of privileges[I/]. Human user accounts have the least privileges and therefore are by default not allowed to change files owned by for example the root user. Apart from that some Linux distributions add layers on top of that like SELinux, TOMOYO, GRSecurity or AppArmor to strengthen security and restrict what a web browser can do or access.


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there is in linux browser sandbox or similar software that can help protect surfing in the internet and against spear fishing ?
In addition to what DavidMcCann said about common sense there is a lot you can do yourself wrt web browsers and browsing hygiene like not using stale browser versions, not accessing the 'net with Java enabled (ninety nine per cent of the people on this planet don't need Java anyway), being selective which web sites are allowed access to which plugins, and most importantly be vigilant: if something looks too good to be true then that's probably the case.
 
Old 08-28-2013, 02:58 AM   #8
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Liberté Linux is a secure,reliable, lightweight and easy to use Gentoo-based LiveUSB/ SD/CD Linux distribution with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile environments.

http://dee.su/liberte
 
  


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