Dale wrote:
Jerry Turba wrote:
I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be
installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security
problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block
keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware programs (I
don't even network with Windows) only Shorewall.
Are keyloggers a form of a virus and do not present a great danger to
Linux? Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa?
Thanks for any info.
I would assume that you would have to install the keylogger on Linux, if
you wanted it. Linux is not like windoze. It is a bit hard to install
something and you not know it. I get emails with viruses all the time
and I click on them, I have never got any infection though. Basically,
if you type in emerge <keylogger> then it will get installed. If you do
not do that, I wouldn't be worried about it. Linux, even in a basic
setup is just not going to run a windoze program or install a windoze
virus. I seem to recall reading somewhere that 99.99% of viruses are
for windoze. The only one you have to really worry about on Linux is a
rootkit, unless you have a very very old setup.
If you have wine or some other windoze emulator thingy, then you may can
get it then but from what I have read it is confined to the wine part
and does not affect Linux itself.
All that is based on what I have read. I don't have windoze here, I
don't run Wine either. I wouldn't buy a computer that has windoze on
it. If someone gives me wone that does have windoze on it, I format the
drive and install Linux.
Dale
:-)
My system is very similar to yours; no windows, no emulators, etc. I
wasn't sure what kind of program the keyloggers were; virus or rootkit.
Of course I would not intentionally install a keylogger or rootkit. I
wanted to know what other thought about keyloggers since I rarely see
them discussed in Linux groups.
Thanks for the confirmation that I don't have to worry about them.
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