Jerry Turba wrote: > I've heard a lot lately about software keyloggers that can be > installed on a computer while surfing the net, and how big a security > problem they have become. What is the Linux/Gentoo approach to block > keyloggers? I do not run any antivirus or anti spyware programs (I > don't even network with Windows) only Shorewall. > Are keyloggers a form of a virus and do not present a great danger to > Linux? Should I be safe if I keep up on updates and the glsa? > > Thanks for any info.
I would assume that you would have to install the keylogger on Linux, if you wanted it. Linux is not like windoze. It is a bit hard to install something and you not know it. I get emails with viruses all the time and I click on them, I have never got any infection though. Basically, if you type in emerge <keylogger> then it will get installed. If you do not do that, I wouldn't be worried about it. Linux, even in a basic setup is just not going to run a windoze program or install a windoze virus. I seem to recall reading somewhere that 99.99% of viruses are for windoze. The only one you have to really worry about on Linux is a rootkit, unless you have a very very old setup. If you have wine or some other windoze emulator thingy, then you may can get it then but from what I have read it is confined to the wine part and does not affect Linux itself. All that is based on what I have read. I don't have windoze here, I don't run Wine either. I wouldn't buy a computer that has windoze on it. If someone gives me wone that does have windoze on it, I format the drive and install Linux. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
