Linux and SpyWare?

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:21:52AM -0800, Tim Alberts wrote:
> Is Linux vulnerable to SpyWare and if so, what are some tools to deal
> with it?  Any specific SpyWare tools, I don't mean hacking into iptables
> manually.

Any OS is theoretically vulnerable, although we like to hope that better
system design practices -- and better user practices -- make it less of a
threat on Linux.

That said, I'm not aware of any spyware for Linux at all, so I don't think
you need to worry about that yet. Concentrate on the afore-mentioned good
practices -- only download and install packages from repositories you trust,
and don't run as root when you don't have to (that is, almost never).

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