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>> Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about, |
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>> there isn't a good way of getting infected. On Windows, you download |
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>> random executables from the net. On Gentoo, you install your stuff |
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>> through portage. It's nearly impossible to get infected. |
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> except when someone puts up or takes over a rsync server and starts providing |
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> malicious ebuilds. |
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And most malware runs an exploit to install itself, it doesn't require |
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the user to run an installation program. So typical attack vectors |
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are: network services, documents/media files (.pdfs flash etc), and |
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all the usual web stuff. As stated earlier buffer overflows against |
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Gentoo would be a nightmare to write due to the system |
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variability....RHEL not so much. |
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