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Posted: Aug. 04 2007,01:59 QUOTE

The general rule of thumb is if your linux box is compromised/hacked. There is no way you can be 100% sure of having it cleaned without a freash install.

On another point, Live CD's are often said to be super secure because they are a read only system. That is true, except one item which I see is never addressed. All (almost all) Live CDs are running on PCs that have a HD install of another OS on them, and the current running system is in ram and is read writable.

Which tells me, IF your current session of your Live CD is hacked, your HD OS could be hacked without your knowledge, True you reboot and your next sesion is fresh and new, But what has been done to your HD OS?

That's one reason I quite using Puppy, it runs as root all the time.


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