dennis@home wrote:



"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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dennis@home wrote:

Its a linux machine, he probably doesn't know it can be hacked or what
to look for to ensure it hasn't been, like most linux users.

Shall I bite?

Bite? Its a statement of fact.

In the parallel universe known as the Dennis Dimension...

Most people who run linux as a conscious decision (so I am not counting
phones, TVs etc) are far more likely to have nous than people who run
whatever it came with from the shop (some form of MS Windows unless it's an
Apple).

Therefore such people are usually more clueful. Many distros offer the same
auto updating as Windows and many have helpful auto confugure scripts for
common services.

That would leave a fairly small number of people who are hand configuring a
system but are cocking it up.

I much smaller number of people than the set of people with zombied MS
windows installations.
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Tim Watts