On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 07:12 -0400, Wm_Frank Pont jr wrote: > I have many programs which g++ has produced and I own. These could > be the target of a virus. What do you mean exactly? > It would be easy for me to wipe all of my > executables and re-make them but I just realized that unlike many > LINUX folk, I am somewhat virus vulnerable ... maybe with quotes around > the word. Worms, Trojan horses, phishing ... are possible. We should > not hide behind a Superiority complex until some strange anti social kid > nails us. We already have a lot of safeguards in place. But it seems > that we are a trusting community. On the contrary, I'd say we are a healthily paranoid community. Being security-aware means focussing safeguards on where it matters, such as proper account control, proper firewall configuration, proper scepticism about random binary downloads etc. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
