RE: Spyware on FreeBSD?

2005-07-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lane Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spyware on FreeBSD? Not only that, but since we don't have enough money to spend on proprietary software, we

RE: Spyware on FreeBSD?

2005-07-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spyware on FreeBSD? I was wondering if anyone had had any trouble with spyware on their FreeBSD systems, or if we are too

Re: Spyware on FreeBSD?

2005-07-14 Thread Lane
On Thursday 14 July 2005 11:18, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spyware on FreeBSD? I was wondering if anyone had had any

Spyware on FreeBSD?

2005-07-13 Thread Gayn Winters
I was wondering if anyone had had any trouble with spyware on their FreeBSD systems, or if we are too small a group of consumers for the spyware vendors to attack? On my Windows system, I had been using Microsoft's GIANT software, which seems to have been corrupted (see today's article in eweek

Re: Spyware on FreeBSD?

2005-07-13 Thread lars
Gayn Winters wrote: I was wondering if anyone had had any trouble with spyware on their FreeBSD systems, or if we are too small a group of consumers for the spyware vendors to attack? So far I don't think I have spyware on my machine, but since I don't strictly monitor my net traffic and since

Re: Spyware on FreeBSD?

2005-07-13 Thread Björn König
Gayn Winters wrote: How immune is a FreeBSD system from spyware? For sure, we should all be following the standard advice of NEVER surfing the web using the root account! Thus a modification of this question is: if we do not surf the web using root, can we still get infected with spyware? I