140320 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!
Others mb able to offer more professional advice, but as a desktop user of Gentoo for > 10 yr , I'ld say don't worry. I read the Windigo PDF (via LWN) & saw no explanation of any weakness in the Linux software : it's very long on all the bad things which can happen, esp to M$ Windows systems, if a server or network gets infected, but it looked as if the only way that could happen on a Linux box wb if someone finds out its root password, ie sysadmin carelessness. HTH -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
