[Wylug-help] ad/spyware

[James Holden]

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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:21, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> > There are no "wild" viruses for Linux, and spyware is not an issue
> > given that software is not ever installed without your knowledge,
> > providing you use common sense (use vendor packages, build from
> > source).
>
> Protection afforded to you by building from source?
>
> jh

You can verify the authenticity of the source using the gpg signatures
from the authors. You can then be sure that no funny patches have been
added by whoever built any binary packages you might otherwise use.


James
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