On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 08:59 +0530, subhodip biswas wrote: > Thats the suggestion I already got from my ISP help center . If > reinstalling is the only way to survive then how good is linux from > windows . The brief answer to that question: No system is immune, however it's quite clear that Windows is under more attack than Linux, and has a plethora of faults that can be easily be attacked remotely, with Windows being vulnerable in the way that a large number of people typically run their system - with too many user privileges (because they've found that *had* to run that way to get ordinary programs to work, or that the system was set up that way by default). Generally, you have to compromise Linux yourself (e.g. run badly configured servers and deliberately reconfigure to downgrade your security). The usual configuration of Linux is quite secure, and most things work fine, this way. It's unusual to have to compromise that security just to use your computer in the ordinary way. Once a person has compromised your box, in whatever manner they've done it, then everything stored on it can be compromised. i.e. If they can hack their way in using Windows, then they can do whatever damage they can manage to do, to *anything*, through Windows. The security features of any particular OS only apply to that OS, everything else is just a file on a disc. Windows security features only protect the Windows OS, Linux security features only protect the Linux OS. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
