Do I need to worry about viruses and defragmentation?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/11/4 Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:40 PM, markfpyles <markfpyles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone:
>>
>> I was just wondering since I am just coming off of a windows machine whether
>> or not I need to have some type of anti-virus software installed and also if
>> I need to worry about defragmentation. Thanks.
>>
>> I am using a Dell Inspiron laptop running Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks.
>
> Every 30 boots or so, Linux checks your HD. This takes a long time.
> Not sure what it really doing.
>

Filesystem integrity check.

You cannot be infected by so-called drive-by downloads, but if you run
SSH or other open services then make sure that it is properly
configured. Firefox itself can be compromised by an add-on, so don't
install Firefox addons or other programs (or repos) if you do not
trust them. Note that all browsers are subject to XXS and other
browser-based attacks.

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Dotan Cohen

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