On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:13:11PM -0400, Mike Parkhurst wrote: > Most of the spyware people are talking about is installed inadvertently > by the [Windoze] user. It comes from malicious web sites [M$ Internet > explorer], malicious e-mail [Outlook & Outlook Express] and the > backdoors from virii [Windoze, again] that don't always get fully > cleaned. I'm finding tons of it on the PCs at work.
Those are the sheep. I feel sorry for them. I try to help them. > > It is possible that something slipped into Debian at the distribution > level, but someone would have found it by now, using Ethereal, firewall > logs, etc. It's possible. And I might be the guy that gets the malware. When I log in to my bank, I want a high level of confidence that I am using software that is acting in my best interest. Once I find that software it makes sense to have it on a live-cd and boot into that software when I access my bank. It's extra work but I get an increased sense of security by doing this. -- Mike Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
