Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:48:39 -0700 From: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@mail.bristolsystems.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Spyware on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <01cd01c587ca$bbfc12d0$c901a8c0@workdog>
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I was wondering if anyone had had any trouble with spyware on their FreeBSD systems, or if we are too small a group of consumers for the spyware vendors to attack? On my Windows system, I had been using Microsoft's GIANT software, which seems to have been corrupted (see today's article in eweek http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=155700,00.asp) by bizarre Microsoft policies on "approving" certain spyware companies - notably GAIN. I suppose this is another reason to push unix-like systems...., but with their increasing popularity, I wonder when we'll be attacked by more than pop-ups and spam... How immune is a FreeBSD system from spyware? For sure, we should all be following the standard advice of NEVER surfing the web using the root account! Thus a modification of this question is: if we do not surf the web using root, can we still get infected with spyware? -gayn
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