[Gllug] Trojans and social engineering

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 13 Aug, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> My experience is that you don't lose your data.  Either your machine is not
> fully compromised and they end up leaving you alone or your machine becomes
> a bot in a network and again they leave your data alone so you don't
> notice.  If they wiped your system, it wouldn't do them much good.

   I have iceweasel/firefox configured to delete all cookies and private
data after each use, and try not to run more than one instance before
closing and re-starting. I also keep a check on wan data.

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