Re: [gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/9/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa? As long as your X configuration is reasonably secure, yes. But if you do something silly like run xhost +, then any remote user can connect to your X server with xev and log keystrokes. Generally though if you stick with the default configuration, keep current with security updates, and avoid running services you don't need, you have nothing to worry about. -Richard Thanks Dale and Richard for the info. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers
Jerry Turba wrote: I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware programs (I don't even network with Windows) only Shorewall. Are keyloggers a form of a virus and do not present a great danger to Linux? Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa? Thanks for any info. I would assume that you would have to install the keylogger on Linux, if you wanted it. Linux is not like windoze. It is a bit hard to install something and you not know it. I get emails with viruses all the time and I click on them, I have never got any infection though. Basically, if you type in emerge keylogger then it will get installed. If you do not do that, I wouldn't be worried about it. Linux, even in a basic setup is just not going to run a windoze program or install a windoze virus. I seem to recall reading somewhere that 99.99% of viruses are for windoze. The only one you have to really worry about on Linux is a rootkit, unless you have a very very old setup. If you have wine or some other windoze emulator thingy, then you may can get it then but from what I have read it is confined to the wine part and does not affect Linux itself. All that is based on what I have read. I don't have windoze here, I don't run Wine either. I wouldn't buy a computer that has windoze on it. If someone gives me wone that does have windoze on it, I format the drive and install Linux. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers
Dale wrote: Jerry Turba wrote: I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware programs (I don't even network with Windows) only Shorewall. Are keyloggers a form of a virus and do not present a great danger to Linux? Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa? Thanks for any info. I would assume that you would have to install the keylogger on Linux, if you wanted it. Linux is not like windoze. It is a bit hard to install something and you not know it. I get emails with viruses all the time and I click on them, I have never got any infection though. Basically, if you type in emerge keylogger then it will get installed. If you do not do that, I wouldn't be worried about it. Linux, even in a basic setup is just not going to run a windoze program or install a windoze virus. I seem to recall reading somewhere that 99.99% of viruses are for windoze. The only one you have to really worry about on Linux is a rootkit, unless you have a very very old setup. If you have wine or some other windoze emulator thingy, then you may can get it then but from what I have read it is confined to the wine part and does not affect Linux itself. All that is based on what I have read. I don't have windoze here, I don't run Wine either. I wouldn't buy a computer that has windoze on it. If someone gives me wone that does have windoze on it, I format the drive and install Linux. Dale :-) My system is very similar to yours; no windows, no emulators, etc. I wasn't sure what kind of program the keyloggers were; virus or rootkit. Of course I would not intentionally install a keylogger or rootkit. I wanted to know what other thought about keyloggers since I rarely see them discussed in Linux groups. Thanks for the confirmation that I don't have to worry about them. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers
On 12/9/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa? As long as your X configuration is reasonably secure, yes. But if you do something silly like run xhost +, then any remote user can connect to your X server with xev and log keystrokes. Generally though if you stick with the default configuration, keep current with security updates, and avoid running services you don't need, you have nothing to worry about. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] advice on security and keyloggers
I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware programs (I don't even network with Windows) only Shorewall. Are keyloggers a form of a virus and do not present a great danger to Linux? Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa? Thanks for any info. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
