Security with Linux - Newbie

[Eric Dunbar]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:03:07 -0500, Joshua Lee <yid> wrote:

> Viruses are rare because Linux isn't a hospitable environment for them.
> Spyware is impossible. Some forms of vulnerabilities exist on both

That's a little bit of a stretch -- there's little reason to believe
that spy ware won't start to pop-up for *nix once it proliferates.

The one thing about *nix is that if a super-user account is
compromised, a malicious and knowledgeable user can do *anything* to
and with a system and set up a million and one back doors that regular
users won't have the slightest chance of detecting.

The best defence is a good password, and, maybe dummy accounts.

Eric.