Re: [flalug] One quarter of all computers part of a botnet

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2007 - 21:02:52 EST


On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:00:13PM -0500, Khepri wrote:
>
> As a Linux user I still need to be vigilant against rootkits and trojans
> and whatnot...although maybe not as hyper-vigilant as when I use
> windows...;D

I'd say, rather, that you should be just as vigilant -- but in the long
haul such vigilance will almost always pay off 100%, rather than (in the
case of Windows) more like 60% or so.

-- 
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substitute for wit." - W. Somerset Maugham



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