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RE: [SLE] spyware
  • From: "Steve Kratz" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:17:40 -0500
  • Message-id: <BJENJJKHFBGKGFHCDHMBAEPBDJAA.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Please. She knows enough to get Linux installed and usable, and knows
> spyware when she sees it, but can't give us an attack vector? Or even a
> process name? What I'm saying is that surely a Linux user (of 3 years)
> knows enough about the situation to recognize a popup saying something
> to the effect of "your computer has been infected!", which is the only
> "spyware" problem that Linux has.


Dang, that's the same spyware I have been getting on my SuSE 9.1 box...
Strangest damn thing though, it pops up in a window that looks like
Windows!!! :)



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