I'm not a professional, but I'd say that running as few services as possible contributes to the overall security be reducing the attack vectors (and Gentoo helps with that by not having that much by default).
I usually opt only for ssh and use certificates rather than passwords... On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 22:06 +0000, john wrote: > After recently reading about Windigo I am quesstioning how good my > security is on my Gentoo box. I am only a desktop user with iptables > and clamav installed and occasionally running chkrootkit. > > Would you recommend any other forms of security (snort, selinux, > hardened etc) that I should be using? > > I may be a touch neurotic but would hate to think I have been infected! > > >
