Re: some attack to fedora machine .

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:06:32 -0600
Frank Cox <theatre sasktel net> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:53:35 +0100
> Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk> wrote:
> 
> > you can usually recover a box pretty trivially.
> 
> The problem, though, is that you can never really KNOW that everything is back
> in order.  

Thats a common misunderstanding I hear.

You never KNOW everything is in order anyway. You never know if a box is
trojanned with 100% certainty regardless of the past history (and the
current quoted [gu]estimate for windows boxes is 2-5% at any given time
so a lot of people clearly don't notice).

It comes down to making an informed risk assessment. 

Alan