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regards ungua |
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The fact of the matter is that *much* if not all of the malware on the internet is designed as well as or better than many of the things that get classified as a "virus" or "worm" by the AV companies, and *many* if not all of them use exactly the same methods to infect the host, if they're available. The user getting a "Click ok" box for infection is a last resort. Obviously, if users actually kept their systems up to date (which is just as (and arguably more) important under *NIX), the threat will be much lower, but they won't, for exactly the same reasons they click "Ok", and therefore it will always be there... Why do you think the number one recommendation for malware is to switch to a browser/email client that is not based on the IE engine? Quote:
... This thread has gone horribly off topic ... You do the same things to protect a linux computer that you would any other. 1) Patch your system OFTEN 2) Don't install software you don't need 3) Don't run software (services) you're not using 4) Don't execute code that you cannot verify the origin of 5) Use a firewall 6) Read and understand the errors your computer presents to you. If you don't understand the errors, ask google, or LQ.org :) That's a good start. I could write volumes about security, but I'll leave that to better authors than myself. I highly recommed "Secrets and Lies" by Bruce Schneier as a good starter security book. |
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my biggest problem usually is that i lack time - so i'd like to read the book you recommended, but... so this problem goes over to how i use linux, too. there are very many unsolved problems and i have no idea how to fix them. obviously, nobody else here either. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=247020 i am not allowed to access my own printer, as a student not living in town centre a serious problem, as you might imagine http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=260166 no proper function of kopete http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=260321 unvulnerable file can't be deleted http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=258986 corel doesn't like to be installed, lacking folders itself is supposed to create http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=258542 cannot write on the upper level of my usb-stick http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=256405 vlc media player installation won't work - even though i downloaded >20 .rpms there is still always something missing. redhat and debian version won't work either i have got a very good explanation for how to use .tar.gz, i guess, but am still too respectful and lacking the concentration and time to try it ( http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=256394 ) another explanation i assume to be very good (and i am grateful to have it!) is how to format my harddisc when i want to use both linux and suse - since my digicam was never compiled for linux ( http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=244248 ) seems a bit complicated and since both linux lycoris and linux suse did as they wanted and not as i told them, i have not too much trust into a linux system formating my harddisc. okay, talking about off-topic... :D Quote:
regards ungua |
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I'd advise all XP users to patch their systems. Oh wait, they can't. A patch doesn't exist yet. :rolleyes: |
I am a newbie too but I am confused. As of now, is it a high risk of getting spyware on Linux through web browsing, given the comparatively tight security measure in Linux? If so, how can we detect if a spyware is running and sending out info?
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series of specific actions means that the user would have to be on the more clueless end to manage it. Not to mention it's just another way to get something in via local zone, this time via help, oh, and "called from page" implies some kind of scripting too. |
It's true but i've mever seen spyware in linux? :P If u got it from somewhere... then plz send me the link.... that would be quite interesting thing to look :P
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Another one for ror. Hopefully the folks who make the linux desktops will keep design decisions that make things like this possible out of their codebases.
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