Unnoticed for years, malware turned Linux and BSD servers into spamming machines

To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Huh? You mean it’s better to have a false sense of security vice overly worried for no rational reason?

Different strokes for different folks I guess. I personally take a balanced approached. Concerned that all systems are vulnerable so I practice good security practices to minimize my risk for all systems I use.

41 posted on 05/04/2015 7:18:39 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)

To: conservatism_IS_compassion

In fit of ambition I installed XTools on my first iMac under an early version of OS X. Never did anything with it, and PROBABLY it’s not on my current sys since I’m pretty sure that, whereas XTools came free with that first iMac I would have had to have bought XTools for my later Mac, and I’m rather sure I didn’t do that.

What would be an easy way to check that?

Stools is a free download. For those that want it. It's mostly for developers.

42 posted on 05/05/2015 2:08:34 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)

To: for-q-clinton

Concerned that all systems are vulnerable so I practice good security practices to minimize my risk for all systems I use.

That’s good practice. What is not good practice is to have a system that you think is so vulnerable to viruses that you find yourself destroying the utility of it by running bloatware antivirus programs. And then giving up on antivirus because it is such a hassle - then panicking when someone erroneously tells you - in good faith - that something is wrong with your system.
Running a system which you have confidence in enables you to come the closest you can to “best practice.” For me, that’s OS X.
You, OTOH, may be quite well grounded in the ins and outs of Windows, and happy in that environment - excepting only that it is still enough of a hassle that seeing others avoid some of that hassle causes a visceral reaction in you. You have invested so much time and attention, and money, in Windows security that you need to believe that anyone who places their trust in anything else is being a simpleton.
Or so it seems to me, simpleton that I may be.

43 posted on 05/05/2015 7:23:04 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)

To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Running a system which you have confidence in enables you to come the closest you can to “best practice.” For me, that’s OS X.

What do you run it on?

44 posted on 05/05/2015 7:27:39 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

To: tacticalogic

45 posted on 05/05/2015 9:11:39 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)

To: conservatism_IS_compassion

That's not server class hardware.

Even Apple doesn't use OSX or Apple hardware for it's data center servers.

46 posted on 05/05/2015 9:41:01 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

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