Linux and Spywares - lack of reading

[James Mckenzie]

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnathan Bailes <johnathan.bailes at gmail.com>
Sent: Feb 15, 2005 10:27 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux and Spywares - lack of reading

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:47:44 -0800, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
!> 
!> Rootkits exist. Need I say more?
!> {^_^}
!> 
!> 
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!Ok, in that case pretty much the only anti-virus software you need on
!a desktop linux box is chkrootkit.
Or rkhunter.  You should have  rootkit checker and run it frequently (I like the fact that rkhunter adds itself to cron.daily and pushes its output to root's mail.)  Of course, if it provides output, it should go to a user's mailbox just to be safe.

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James McKenzie
A Proud User of Linux!