On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:06:32 -0600 Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:53:35 +0100 > Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > you can usually recover a box pretty trivially. > > The problem, though, is that you can never really KNOW that everything is back > in order. Thats a common misunderstanding I hear. You never KNOW everything is in order anyway. You never know if a box is trojanned with 100% certainty regardless of the past history (and the current quoted [gu]estimate for windows boxes is 2-5% at any given time so a lot of people clearly don't notice). It comes down to making an informed risk assessment. Alan
