spyware

[Brian Kelsay]

Kurt wrote:

> I was thinking, what does Linux do with spyware? I
> know that it can't run on Linux, but how does the
> browser handle it? Where does it go? Or does the
> webserver detect linux and just not send the spyware
> out? I was just curious is all. 
> 
> Kurt

Good question.  I had a pop-up for gator come up the other day.  If you 
have Wine installed it may be able to run, but would require some help. 
  I don't think wine has a registry (correct me please, I've never run 
it) and the install script for something like Gator wouldn't find 
windows or its .dlls in the expected place.  Try one on a test machine 
and see.  I would disconnect your other PCs from the network or run this 
test in the DMZ.  You have one of those, don't you.

Brian

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