On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:08:17AM -0400, Steve Thompson - UG wrote:
>i don't quite understand this logic. i can see where you don't want to
>reload if you get a virus, BUT if i get a linux virus and it deletes
>everything in my home. i'm gonna lose everything that is important. i can
>reload my workstation and setup the firewalls and such. i dont want to lose
>my important stuff. i understand from a server standpoint, but everyone
>says no big deal, you'll only lose whats in your user id, well thats the
>important stuff to me. i just burn it to a cd as a backup. anyway my
>0.02c
If one is truly paranoid about dealing with things like this,
it's easy enough to set up a user on the system specifically for
internet use, and do all browsing as that user. It's even easy
to do using ssh. ``ssh -l safeuser -f opera'' will start up
opera running as safeuser in safeuser's home directory. This way
only things under that home directory is vulnerable.
Of course no security is worth a damn if one doesn't have good
verified backups.
Bill
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