On Friday 07 February 2003 08:19 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: > > As a general principle, viruses don't propagate on a linux > > system unless you > > connect as root. A few exploits exist to put in trojan > > worms, but if you > > stay updated you can avoid those. Portsentry is an intrusion > > detector which > > could be well enhanced by iptables. There are soe good, > > stateful firewalls > > out there based on iptables, and I favor some of the ones on > > websites posted > > as a set of iptables rules over shorewall. > > > > No there are no viruses that can damage electronics. > > The tech department of the electronics shop where I bought my PC said the > same about viruses. > > As for the internet: I always connect as normal user, using a USB ADSL > modem, and the connection script calls binary pppd. A configuration file > makes that another binary, named pppoa3, is run. Both pppd and pppoa3 have > been allowed by root (myself in fact) to be used by group "modem", to which > the normal user belongs. > Is there any danger in doing so? should not be any "danger" or problem
> > lm_sensors will smoke > > IBM 600, 770 and A2x series IBM notebooks to the point of a > > factory return > > for a new motherboard, but that should be a concern only if > > you are using > > some other distro cause lm_sensors is never loaded by default > > in Mandrake. > > (the damage is to firmware on the board which the board does > > not have the > > ability to flash in any sane way--overwriting drivers for the > > I2C bus). > > > > Civileme > > Disclaimer > ************************************************************************ > Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. > Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. > Als u dit bericht per abuis hebt ontvangen, wordt u verzocht het te > vernietigen en de afzender te informeren. > Wij adviseren u om bij twijfel over de juistheid of de volledigheid van > de mail contact met afzender op te nemen. > ************************************************************************
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