My Linux box is on a home network that has two windows boxes on it. Is this going to make it a greater secuirty risk for me (one of the Windows boxes, without SP2 on it, has been under a barrage of attackes recently. The other with SP2 installed has been safe.)
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 12:28 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 20:17 +1300, Lindsay wrote: > > I have been of the understanding that Linux is relatively virus and > > intruder safe. How accurate is my understanding of this? > Others have nicely answered the question. However, be aware that any > user on your system can still easily take down the entire machine under > most setups. For a home box this is not much of a problem, but it can be > an issue on bigger systems. >
