On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 23:40, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
Nevertheless Linux is affected by spyware. My computer is unfortunately a victim of this form of advertising although I've been running SuSE since I bought it 3 years ago.
And *I'm* convinced that this list has been infiltrated by astroturfers sympathetic to Microsoft. 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. I think this is the same sort of thing as the stupid thread on performance problems. What a bunch of FUD. dk