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Re: [LUG] Linux - and security

 

On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Neil Winchurst wrote:

After reading all of the posts to this thread I am feeling somewhat
overwhelmed by it all, a bit lost in the wilderness. And a lot of the
advice seems to refer to people who need much more security than I do.
Or am I asking for too much?

If you're an ordinary home-user using Linux then the reality is that you've little to fear.

Take the same precautions that everyone /should/ take for any computer system - don't click on links or run programs without thinking first. Don't open suspect email, and so on.

Gordon

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