On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:21:52AM -0800, Tim Alberts wrote: > Is Linux vulnerable to SpyWare and if so, what are some tools to deal > with it? Any specific SpyWare tools, I don't mean hacking into iptables > manually. Any OS is theoretically vulnerable, although we like to hope that better system design practices -- and better user practices -- make it less of a threat on Linux. That said, I'm not aware of any spyware for Linux at all, so I don't think you need to worry about that yet. Concentrate on the afore-mentioned good practices -- only download and install packages from repositories you trust, and don't run as root when you don't have to (that is, almost never). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon1>
