On 11/11/10, Patrick Bartek <bartek047(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon <szajmi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> 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...
Why would you think I am?
I'm no expert on intrusion detection, but I'm pretty sure that it
involves much more than gut feelings. A clever cracker will make sure
that you don't experience "the usual indicators".
Anyway, even if you use eol'd Fedoras (and I must admit, I do, too),
you should probably not let sensitive data (credit card numbers and
such) anywhere near it.
Andras