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140320 john wrote: |
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> After recently reading about Windigo, |
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> I am quesstioning how good my security is on my Gentoo box. |
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> I am only a desktop user with iptables and clamav installed |
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> and occasionally running chkrootkit. |
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> Would you recommend any other forms of security |
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> -- snort, selinux, hardened etc -- that I should be using? |
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> I may be a touch neurotic but would hate to think I have been infected! |
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Others mb able to offer more professional advice, |
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but as a desktop user of Gentoo for > 10 yr , I'ld say don't worry. |
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I read the Windigo PDF (via LWN) |
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& saw no explanation of any weakness in the Linux software : |
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it's very long on all the bad things which can happen, |
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esp to M$ Windows systems, if a server or network gets infected, |
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but it looked as if the only way that could happen on a Linux box |
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wb if someone finds out its root password, ie sysadmin carelessness. |
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HTH |
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