alan c wrote: > With Ubuntu in mind I would be grateful for more information about the > possible vulnerability - or not - of the sort of malware (trojan) > which is likely to be used in the sort of current, and on a new scale, > attack via infected websites as described in the Guardian: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2106855,00.html > > My initial reaction is of course that linux doe snot install anything > without a password, but then I remembered that in my user activities I > was able to install a firefox extension without a password (I think), > and in principle I can install into my user area with no password > generally. > > So could a trojan be installed easily from an infected website without > my knowledge?
Wasn't Nixory intended to deal with malware affecting Linux web browsers? But there no longer seem to be any updates to Nixory. Anyone know what's happened to this project? -- Diana -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
