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I'm going to install Solaris Express - when there's time. But anyway, is Solaris immune to spyware? Or is that something that has to do with Windows because it's usually a .exe file? Or is it web page malware? Thanks.
I think with any unix based system you are pretty safe from malware. The only thing you have to worry about is any type of social engineering such as those e-mail scams.
I'm going to install Solaris Express - when there's time. But anyway, is Solaris immune to spyware? Or is that something that has to do with Windows because it's usually a .exe file? Or is it web page malware? Thanks.
To Guitarist88, SqdnGuns, Kahless, Thanks that's what I wanted to hear. I try to use commonsense and avoid those email scams. Keeping my system up to date will be difficult, since I'm new to Solaris - unless Solaris has an auto update feature like Windows. While it's nice to have the security alerts, a quick look at them tells me it must take a lot of time to keep a system up to date as far as security. I guess the days of just using the computer to get some work done are over. I know I spend way more time than I want to just keeping a few Windows computers secured. Thanks again guys.
Hey Thanks, I remember seeing an old Solaris patch updating script years ago, but at the time, since I couldn't even get it installed and configured, I wasn't interested.
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