Re: Spyware search/destroy for Linux?

[Alexander Nordström <alexander.nordstromNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, 4 Jun 2004 07:03, daniel wrote:

> i've never heard of spyware for linux.  i mean, to get it, (a) there'd have
> to be a great deal of interest by the buttholes who create it.  (b) there'd
> have to be a LOT of people running their desktop boxes as root (VERY BAD)
> (c) all linux boxes would have to be very similar (this is just not the
> case)

and (d) either we'd all have to use the outdated and absolutely insane 
paradigm of habitually downloading and installing binary software from 
untrusted Web sites, or the package management systems would have to be 
compromised.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
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