Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Ján Zahornadský" <yankyo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Security
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:44:33
Message-Id: 1395384250.19901.1.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Security by john
1 I'm not a professional, but I'd say that running as few services as
2 possible contributes to the overall security be reducing the attack
3 vectors (and Gentoo helps with that by not having that much by default).
4
5 I usually opt only for ssh and use certificates rather than passwords...
6
7 On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 22:06 +0000, john wrote:
8 > After recently reading about Windigo I am quesstioning how good my
9 > security is on my Gentoo box. I am only a desktop user with iptables
10 > and clamav installed and occasionally running chkrootkit.
11 >
12 > Would you recommend any other forms of security (snort, selinux,
13 > hardened etc) that I should be using?
14 >
15 > I may be a touch neurotic but would hate to think I have been infected!
16 >
17 >
18 >

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