On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:40:55PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > systems). But for example, if you browse the web with a vulnerable browser, > > that allows malicious sites to execute code on your machine, then all the > > firewalls in the world won't prevent your machine from getting infected by a > > trojan. > > Actually current firewalls/proxies and routing boxes DO scan for viruses and > melicious code while you surf as well. Dig the network for specific examples, > I can't remember them off the top of my head.
Not the cheaper ones. Such scans take CPU and memory, and lower-end boxes don't have of those to spare. > But my mother won't appreciate command-line at all (and so would I, if I'll > have > to explain to her what to do with it over the phone). Slightly OT: Actually some commands are quite useful for phone support. The problem is to get exactly the right information with the user having to type as little as possible. Consider the remote user as your interface to the system you're trying to fix. It is a sort of "interactive" terminal with a very long delay. So you need a set of scripts that already do most of the filtering. > Yes, that's expose. And these are not just screen-shots but live, "zoomed out" > application windows. Extremly neat and easy to stay oriented. > There is skippy for X11 which tries to simulate it, works so-so. Rant: But for that to work well with Linux you currently need non-free display drivers. Non-free: not part of the common codebase easily customized by distros. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
