On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:40, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Mozilla and Konqueror both have features to allow you to allow
> or deny cookies based on the hostname, and that can remember
> which sites are 'okay' and which ones are not allowed
> to set cookies. I'd turn that on.
>
> Other than that, just don't install programs
> from untrusted places...
>
> I find spyware on GNU/Linux boxes to be very unlikely in the near
> future... maybe in a few years we'll catch up to Windows in that
> respect. <grin>.
>
> It's like viruses. Sure, it is possible, but just not that common,
> at least not yet.
I agree with everything he said. It's just not an issue under Linux
unless you've been 0\/\/nz0r3d, in which case, you've got much worse
problems.
If you need something under Linux that can tell you if there are any
malicious programs running in the background, try 'ps', 'netstat -an'
and 'nmap'. (Not being sarcastic. Those are the best tools for that
sort of thing. Anything else would just be eye-candy wrapped around a
tool like one of those.)
Do you have a reason to suspect something, or are you just asking out of
curiosity?
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