so you antivirus progs (kspersky,Lavasoft's ad aware) firewall, spyware removing applications be installed...i used to use them on windows! sorry im new with ubuntu!! :)
p.s someone please help with Kdetv..see my other post >From: Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], British Ubuntu Talk ><ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> >Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] A small Bet, because Im fed up with not knowing. >Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:42:32 +0100 > >Nik, > >On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:00 +0100, Nik Butler wrote: > > > demonstrate a working Linux Virus that can > > infect their Ubuntu desktop account ( and other users of that same > > machine ) by being launched from a email attachment. > > it must infect the core system files. > > it must set up its own mail user agent which it uses to propogate > > copies of itself to members of your address book. > > it must attempt to replicate it self succesfully into another >machines. > >Maybe this is obvious, but this, to me, assumes the rather narrow view >that the only threat out there is self propagating viruses. This is the >case neither for Windows systems nor Linux systems. Even the BCC article >does not say all the attacks were viruses! > >I've seen plenty of Linux/Unix systems compromised. The vast majority >have been compromised through weak passwords or user's password being >discovered. > >Most attacks seem to result in the running of a IRC bot, which can then >be used to launch DDOS attacks or SPAM or whatever. > >I've also seen system utilities replaced with versions that hide the bad >software, so root access must have been gained somehow. > >The only thing I'm not sure about is whether any of this is >self-propagating. > >Regards, >Tony. >-- >Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, >IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. >T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 >E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold > > >-- >ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/