On 02/11/2011 03:36 AM, jdow wrote: > Apparently it is active in the wild now. If a machine is not patched to > the hilt, which Fedora discourages with updates that make the machine > unusable once and awhile and upgrades needed several times a year it > seems, you have problems. Fedora doesn't discourage that. Breakage in updates might do but that is hardly deliberate. One could avoid this problem to a good extend by cherry picking updates and doing just security updates on your system is simple and easy with either PackageKit or yum (via yum-security plugin) > It is an exploit. It attacks Linux machines. That's proof that such > things exist. If they exist then zero day exploits also exist that > just have not been discovered yet. Safe is better than sorry. .... but this has absolutely nothing to do with viruses and anti-viruses tools are not going to help against security exploits Rahul -- 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
