[Red Badger]

Sometimes all you have to do is just go to a website and you’re infected........Or a e-mail from a friend or relative has it because they did..............

[Bob434]

ok thanks-

Here’s a site that talks abotu how to ‘harden linux’ but it’s way above my capabilities- others might like to see it though?

https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/on-drovorub-linux-kernel-security-best-practices/

Would be nice if we could run linux in a sandbox like environment, and delete the daily sessions every evening- I suppose virtualbox coudl do that- would have to look into that- how to get email in it- and not lose emails when session is deleted- (We’re very careful abotu our emails, but yup- others coudl send it- but we don’t open attachments unless we know it’s benign things like family photos or something)

[zeugma]

Sometimes all you have to do is just go to a website and you’re infected........Or a e-mail from a friend or relative has it because they did..............

It would have to be something that can escalate privs to root. In Linux, I don't know of any email programs that will auto-execute attachments. Attachments are generally saved with a filemask of 644 or 640, which will not execute natively.