8.04 still a fine version

[Robert Holtzman]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Karl Larsen wrote:

> On 04/07/2010 01:35 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:

            ..........snip...........

>>>
>> I am not a security expert either but what makes Linux 99.9999% more
>> secure than the "other" [ugh!] is that to do any damage to the system
>> one has to execute a program as ROOT - this is what the OP really meant
>> by the reference to 'password and name'. If some malware does get thru
>> and somehow gets activated then the only damage it may be able to do is
>> only to whatever is the user's HOME directory; want to do anything
>> outside your own HOME directory you need become root (using sudo for
>> example) and then also provide a password.
>>
>> BC
>>
>>
>>
>>
>         Exactly!
>

You either don't have any sensitive information in your home directory 
or you run backups at least every day.

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