No. I'd say that without SP2 your XP box will be probably infested with spyware which looks like you're 'being attacked', but none of that generally goes looking to spread like a virus or worm to other machines on the network.
Any windows worms you've got will try to spread - but can't bother a Linux box. (the absolute worst you're likely to see is if you had something like Blaster hammering away trying to infect things - and you'd probably never even notice that). - steve Unless you have a good reason not to I'd put SP2 and Microsoft's new anti-spyware tool (turn on RealTime Protection and set the Autoupdater time to a reasonable value) onto any XP boxes - and visit windowsupdate.microsoft.com this time each month (there's a stack of critical updates released today) -----Original Message----- From: Lindsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2005 9:33 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: Re: Linux security - newbie 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. > ========================================================= This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by CommArc Cube Server
