Thanks and my apologies about getting hot behind the collar. I misread you too. Now maybe you can give me some tips before I go out and buy a bunch of books. First, If I were to buy a book or two, what would you suggest? Second, there was a program on one of the other distros that I was experimenting with that made the font of the desktop more readable. Of course I can't remember it. Then it seems that everytime I use firefox I'm going to have to enlarge the fonts. Would opera browser be the same way? Or one of the other browsers? Thanks. John
John B Pace wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:36 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: >> John B Pace wrote: >>> So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus >>> software? >> Non-root users still don't have root abilities, so, no, of >> course not. >> >> Do downloaded files suddenly make themselves executable, >> without you chmod'ing them? >> >> The security model hasn't changed since 1970, BECAUSE IT >> DOESN'T NEED TO BE! >> >> Remember, the Unix security model was designed with the presumption >> that ANY user might accidentally do something utterly stupid, >> and so the whole system was designed to protect users from >> each others' stupidity. >> >> >> > Interesting that the windows machines are being protected >>> from themselve. >> What cave have you been hiding in for the last 15 years? >> >> > I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why >>> would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. >> To weed out Microsoft viruses. >> >> Sheesh, John, name one Linux virus. >> >> The last outbreak of malware in the *nix community was >> over 20 years ago...and that was due to buffer overruns >> (which have since been corrected) on hardware so obsolete >> that you can't even find in operation any more (VAX-11 >> and Motorola 680x0 CPUs) >> >> > I'm probably sticking >>> my foot in my mouth or worse my head where the sun doesn't bother >>> shining, but I'm really curious as to clamav and antivir. You don't have >>> to answer this if you don't want, Carlos. I can check it out! Thanks! >>> John >> They're for the purpose of protecting Windows clients >> from malware-infested Windows viruses. >> >> > > I can't recall any viruses, malware, but then I've probably > only put 90 hours into linux altogether, which is why I > introduced myself as an older dummy. Oh, I see. I thought you meant you used to use Unix way back a long time ago. > What did you mean about being a non-root user. The system administrators account is user ID 0, and by default, named "root" ... you can change this, but it will cause problems if a program checks the user name rather than the user ID number. > I'm normally no-root except when I need to be in root. I That's good. Never do anything as root unless you need to. Even software that I grab off of websites, do all of my downloading from my normal user account. I just use the su command to change user ID to root just to install the software, and then end the su session. > see that you just came on board as far as downloaded files. > That solution was taken care of a good deal of time ago this > morning with some excellent answers. There were no "of course > not." That phrase should be left out of conversation about > discussing solutions. It sounds like old linux answers by > those that think they may have something over the rest of us. > I don't and won't put up with that crap. I don't need your I misunderstood what you were saying in your original post. I thought you mean "old linux user" as someone with experience in this operating system from long ago, not someone who is getting grey hair. My mistake. > preaching with your capitalizing either. In fact, I don't > need you disrespect at all, so keep it to yourself because > I surely don't care what you say or what others say to > my response. No problem. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
