> In the Windows world people try to protect themselves using antivirus > software, with very limitted success. In the FOSS world I usually do > this by limitting installations to packages supported by my distro. Is > there any other way in which one can reduce the chances of installing > malware?
Create a user with very limited privileges, (i.e. not a member of any group in common with anyone else), limited executable directories, and definitely no sudo rights. Use that id to download, and unzip in their directories. Have a few short text files in their directories, and look for any changes to them. Be sure to use ls -la to see if there are any new .files - these may be perfectly legitimate, unless they're ... (three or more dots, designed to masquerade as directory names). Only put the programs into general use directories after they've run benignly. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
