On 11/10/10, Patrick Bartek <bartek047(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon <szajmi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/10, Patrick Bartek <bartek047(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm not running a server with the need for up-to-date
> security, but a
> > personal desktop that has more that sufficient
> security. After 10 years of
> > using various versions of Linux, I've yet to be
> infected or hacked. So, I
> > must be doing something right. I ran FC6 for
> almost a year past EOL before
> > finally upgrading to 9. Never had any problems.
>
> How do you know you haven't been infected or hacked?
> (I don't doubt that you do, just curious about how.)
Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd application behavior, no
unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU usage, no excessive or abnormal net (or
hard drive) activity, no crashes or freezes, no strange log reports, no
reports from friends about receiving spam e-mails from me that I never sent,
etc.
I've spent enough time fixing friends' infected Windows machines that I've
gotten a "feel" for when something is amiss. It's not a definitive
feeling,
just an indicator to start checking for something wrong.
I hope that you're not deluding yourself...
Andras