[TriLUG] spyware

[Mike M]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:13:11PM -0400, Mike Parkhurst wrote:
> Most of the spyware people are talking about is installed inadvertently 
> by the [Windoze] user.  It comes from malicious web sites [M$ Internet 
> explorer], malicious e-mail [Outlook & Outlook Express] and the 
> backdoors from virii [Windoze, again] that don't always get fully 
> cleaned.  I'm finding tons of it on the PCs at work.

Those are the sheep. I feel sorry for them. I try to help them.
> 
> It is possible that something slipped into Debian at the distribution 
> level, but someone would have found it by now, using Ethereal, firewall 
> logs, etc.

It's possible.  And I might be the guy that gets the malware.
When I log in to my bank, I want a high level of confidence that I am
using software that is acting in my best interest.

Once I find that software it makes sense to have it on a live-cd and
boot into that software when I access my bank.  It's extra work but
I get an increased sense of security by doing this.

-- 
Mike

Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm.