On 03/02/10 22:04, John Matthews wrote: > Thats something that I am thinking about all the time, but have no idea > how to implement. What is 'user management and kernel-mode > support' supposed to do. If I am reading the first bit, is the user > management something to do with log in details? What the other bit is I > have no idea? > > How can you tell when you are being attacked? What is there, that is > easy to use to help prevent attacks, and monitor if you are being attacked. > > John > > > Kenny Coyle wrote: >> As odd as it may be, i've already had troubles with attempted >> malicious activity on machines that I administer with Ubuntu. >> >> Luckily, the user management and kernel-mode support of linux itself >> helps a _lot_ >> >> But at the same time, I think that now is the time to be creating such >> counter measures... >> > > There are already some virus scanners available, such as avast, but these only do on-demand scanning, and don't just run in the background. Its not something I really use though.
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