On Tuesday 29 May 2007 13:47, Dhawal Doshy wrote: > Kartik Mistry wrote: > > On 5/29/07 Easwar Hariharan wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I am using Mandriva 07 installed from a LFY DVD.It's the free > >> version. I have not used any other distro as yet coz I am still > >> a newbie. > > > > I don't trust LFY CD/DVDs. > > This is speculation / knee-jerk reaction.. the OP needs to clearly > communicate the symptoms and other observations before we conclude > on whether its a rootkit OR bad media.
True. However LFY dvd's are of extremely poor quality. If the install runs behind a gui screen and or the user is a newbie, he is likely to miss errors and wind up with a not so proper install. eg using a file system without the fsck tools. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
