I was wondering if anyone had had any trouble with spyware on their FreeBSD systems, or if we are too small a group of consumers for the spyware vendors to attack?
On my Windows system, I had been using Microsoft's GIANT software, which seems to have been corrupted (see today's article in eweek http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=155700,00.asp) by bizarre Microsoft policies on "approving" certain spyware companies - notably GAIN. I suppose this is another reason to push unix-like systems...., but with their increasing popularity, I wonder when we'll be attacked by more than pop-ups and spam... How immune is a FreeBSD system from spyware? For sure, we should all be following the standard advice of NEVER surfing the web using the root account! Thus a modification of this question is: if we do not surf the web using root, can we still get infected with spyware? -gayn _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
