Thank You for Your time and answer, Jordon: > If you must because of incoming mail try using ClamAV. Which a lot of > servers are readily able to integrate and unless you're dumb enough > (and this is just a subjective opinion) to allow elevated privileges > without knowing what the program is, or you run as root, you won't > run into any problems (normally ~ lets not forget the possible > potential security hole ~ it's happened before) with something > jacking your system. Even though Linux is open too, if it's in the > repo somebody manages it, so you can always assume that software > found in official repositories is safe.
I was using untrusted live/installable CD/DVDs to rescue my OS - of course I did use root privileges. And therefore I'm concerned before and now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c4484bb.ce7c0e0a.15d2.1...@mx.google.com
