[Ambassadors] New Trojan Threatens Mac OS X, Linux Machines

[Dan Mashal]

This is a bunch of BS.

No direct links or hard evidence in the article. Even if there was, this is
a browser issue. Not an OS issue.

Dan

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tristan Santore <
tristan.santore at internexusconnect.net> wrote:

> On 02/09/12 03:04, Danishka Navin wrote:
> > Is this true? (for Linux)
> >
> http://news.efytimes.com/e1/89929/New-Trojan-Threatens-Mac-OS-X-Linux-Machines
> >
> > Btw, I could not find any source other than this.
> >
> > Thanks,
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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> If it is, it just reinforces that you cannot rely on anything for
> security, because there is no such thing as a secure system, as long as
> us filthy useless humans write code. Nobody in the linux community ever
> made such promises any way.
>
> Just keep updated, install and run clamav every so often, maybe install
> and configure tripwire/aide, do not download dodgy stuff, follow and
> click random dodgy links. Same applies to any other operating system
> really.
>
> Compared to many other systems, GNU operating systems can still have
> issues, but far less, and if they do the issue is fixed much quicker.
>
> Not much else to say really apart from Keep Calm and carry on!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tristan
>
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