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On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:13, Mark Guertin wrote: |
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> Well in theory any file on a machine could have been compromised |
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> (including something built into portage). if you want to be absolutely |
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> sure I would recommend having your scan tools on removable media and |
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You mean removable and writeonly media, right? A writable media could be |
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changed just at the time you plug it in. |
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> not dependent on anything on the machine you are scanning, like a USB |
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but it would depend on the kernel the machine is running. I don't think theres |
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a way to be absolutely sure, without massive amount of time and system |
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downtime for checking. |
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Jens |
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