-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-12-13 at 16:18 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 12/12/09 21:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Thanks Carlos for this explanation.
One can then say that - at a streeetttch - AppArmor is the primitive beginning of an attempt to come up with a protection system from malware for openSUSE. No? :-)
No, AA is a mature solution to protect from some types of attack. Another tool in the toolchest.
The only thing that can protects you from a trojan, is knowing in advance that it is a trojan and not installing it. Which means, not ever installing anything outside what /you/ define as secure sources.
Aah, but this is what I have asking about. In all cases for someone who has just installed oS - and even someone who has been using oS for some time - there is a list of repos which provide software for oS. A user selects such a repo because it indicates that it has the file/apps s/he needs to be able to do "A".
As a "newbie" I consider that the repos showing in YaST's Repositories are secure - afterall they are listed in my (anticipated to be so) favourite distro.....and on top of all this I have been constantly bombarded by Linux people 'shouting' that Linux is DAMN-WELL SECURE!!........
You getting the drift of what I am saying... :-) ?
Linux is more secure than windows. That is a fact. Absolutely secure? No way. That's impossible. Human ingenuity and stupidity always find ways to break things.
An antivirus? Well, it will warn you if the malware is already known... not for a new malware.
Absolutely correct.
You can catch only what is known about but not the unknown.
However, having said this, I remember way back in 1990/1 when the author of the BBS software I was running posted a message to all Sysops (of his software) that he was having dinner with some friends the night before and, during a discussion about security and virii, his wife asked a question. The result of this question made him, overnight, sit down and write protection for - not known at that time but what is now known as - the polymorphic virus. So it is possible to preempt nasties....
Some. A polymorphic is a type. A completely new virus is always unknown. What you can do is stop some of the actions that malware attempts to do, specially when using the system as plain user. However, if you are installing software as root (obviously), all protections are off. Root is powerful... Notice that installing a piece of software by root or admin is no different in windows or in linux. You have to trust the author or packager/distributor of that software. You are in their hands... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksk8+UACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UIIwCfW+zgYPhhYh+CpaH9FSU6HmGD MdwAn0qCV09+w8dcCDKKNLGr7if3zBMg =mq8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org