Re: [Haifux] New mail icon for Thunderbird over Gnome

2012-05-13 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 13 בMay 2012 19:22:20 Eli Billauer wrote: Hello all, I've finally started working with Thunderbird under Linux (FC12, with Thunderbird 3.0.7). The old settings were migrated perfectly, If your new one is 3.0.7, I am afraid to ask what was the old ;-) $ rpm -q thunderbird

[Haifux] Is the risk real? (Was: New mail icon for Thunderbird over Gnome)

2012-05-13 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, Since my not-so-updated software versions became an issue in itself (somehow I always get that) I wondered: Leave alone the unpleasant feeling of knowing your computer *could* be exploited, are there any real cases of attacks against personal, non-server Linux machines? The need to

Re: [Haifux] Is the risk real? (Was: New mail icon for Thunderbird over Gnome)

2012-05-13 Thread guy keren
at least in the past - the risk was real. when i first connected my computer to the internet via ADSL, and set up firewall rules - i was surprised to see that i get many (hundreads) of failed network connections from around the world. what people do, is run software that scans complete