Reply to Kubuntu and McAfee

[Mark Wallace]

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>I wasn't aware that McAfee ran on Kubuntu... or was necessary...


It doesn't that I am aware of.  It installed it on the Windows partition.

But I am taking a course in Linux this term and the professor thinks 
that, if the user is logged on in root, he is just as likely to have 
problems as someone running Windows.   Once you log on in root, any 
virus could run, possibly in the background where you wouldn't be 
aware of it unless you checking to see what processes are running.

A virus COULD sit downloaded for months or years, waiting for the 
user to log on in root, either while he was on line or off line, run 
in the background and do just as much damage.

He felt that Kubuntu disables root log ins as much for security 
reasons as it is to make it "idiot proof."



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