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1 • rootkit & tails (by vern on 2020-10-19 01:05:44 GMT from United States)
I don't use any rootkit tools. Tails is something I'm just not interested in.
I just feel that if one's browsing is careful and ID any strange email, I feel relatively save. No problems so far, and its been years of use.
2 • rkhunter (by . on 2020-10-19 02:01:33 GMT from Norway)
rkhunter is my rootkit checking tool.
lynis is good for other security checks, too.
3 • U R Welcome!!! (by Neefty Nixer on 2020-10-19 02:26:21 GMT from Canada)
I have voted i do not check for rootkits. For those people who wish to break into my computer are always welcomed. As far as I know it runs three file-servers, YASSM and SAMBA. what all you can get is all yours!!!
4 • Tails (by Juan de la Cruz on 2020-10-19 03:04:32 GMT from Philippines)
@1, "I don't use any rootkit tools. Tails is something I'm just not interested in.
I just feel that if one's browsing is careful and ID any strange email, I feel relatively save. No problems so far, and its been years of use."
Tails is not to prevent rootkits, or any malware. It is to keep you as anonymous and safe as possible on the Web. No, you have no use for it, but a Chinese national who posts any disagreement with his/her government, no matter where he/she is. Being identified may mean a knock at your door, or at your family's door if you are overseas. Even here, in a relatively democratic country, a student voicing opposition to government policies may be "red-tagged" as a terrorist. If identified, he/she may be walking down the street, and riders on a motorcycle may drive by and shoot him/her in the head. This is not some dystopian sci-fi future. It's happening now. Enjoy your safety while you can, since your compatriots are giving it away piecemeal.
Yes, the dark web is a haven for all sorts of criminals, but anonymity is to be prized by those who want to keep or regain freedom.
5 • Tails (by bob on 2020-10-19 06:58:52 GMT from New Zealand)
Tails always finds and works and uses audio here. :) Out of the box every time...
6 • want some tails..? (by fonz on 2020-10-19 18:03:23 GMT from Indonesia)
ill always have an AV installed (for linux its clamav, wandows its whatever gets less gossip), but only active for ondemand scans. alwaysmode tends to be chaotic, and a bunch of smaller devs get chewed out often for not being macrostuff certified/verified or something.
a long time ago during college i was hit by a rootkit that killed my laptops BIOS from, research, yeah. thankfully it was still under warranty (which shouldnt have been) and got it replaced. i dont do anymore research, yeah, so my habit to only turn on ondemand still stands. no malware on both lin and wan for over +5 years.
#4 agreed, things are changing for the worse in our parts of the world -_-
7 • Tails... (by tom joad on 2020-10-19 15:57:24 GMT from Switzerland)
I like Tails. Over the years of it Tails has become more user friendly. Upgrading Tails has great advancements too. There are some issues with it I don't like but for the most part Tails does what is does well. One aspect of Tails I am not fond of is the hoops one has to just through to access one's other drives. I know it is for safety and all that but...
While I once used Tails on a daily basis I have since moved on to other ways of protecting myself online. Over the last several months I have begun to use a VPN with the Tor browser. I think that combination is more flexible and useful. That is much easier to upgrade. I have complete access to my computer. I believe using the Tor browser through a VPN is more secure. Some VPN's offer a 'double hop' too. That offers a bit more protection but slows the connection. And if one uses Azure-Meek one can go pretty much anywhere with impunity.
But I still maintain USB drives loaded with the current Tails...just in case.
8 • TOR (by @ my location on 2020-10-19 19:58:14 GMT from Portugal)
Question: is there a way to hide that someone is on TOR?
First and last time I tried TOR comments were blocked on the receiving end.
9 • Tor (by Jesse on 2020-10-19 20:05:40 GMT from Canada)
@8: The issue isn't that you're using Tor, most places (ourselves included) don't check for that. It's the use of exit nodes that are frequently used to abuse or attack websites. See our FAQ page: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=faq#vpn
10 • Security Checks (by M.Z. on 2020-10-19 23:14:49 GMT from United States)
I only run security checks on my Mageia installs, which have integrated chrootkit into their MSEC tool & runs it automatically if you install the the root kit checker. I decided to do so on the machine I do banking on & have been doing it on the other machine I run the distro on as well. It may not be needed, but it's silly to pretend that security could never be an issue & smarter to be a bit more proactive.
11 • TAILS (by jay on 2020-10-20 23:24:44 GMT from United States)
I like TAILS in theory but abandoned it ver 3 its was too slow. TAILS 4.11 im thankful somebody gave it a review and hope for continual improvement as i see it as a moving target, naturally.
Rootkits suck, current tools are inadequate so i think most ppl just dont bother. If your computer is running weird wiping the disks, fresh installs fresh images might not be bad idea.
12 • TAILS remastered (by Dowah diddy diddy dum diddy Do on 2020-10-21 03:15:45 GMT from United States)
What I would do:
1. Reroll TAILS using XFCE instead of Gnome
2. Remove almost everything except browser+tor+settings - release as a separate .ISO d/l for power users (resulting "attack surface" would be MUCH smaller, for one thing)
For starters.
13 • Tails and others (by WhatMeWorry on 2020-10-21 04:21:39 GMT from United States)
@12, "Reroll TAILS using XFCE instead of Gnome." Probably easier to start with a minimal live distro like Star or Sparky, then add Tor and anything else you want.
For those who want more, and not less, There is Kodachi, which is the Swiss Army knife of anonymity. If it's not there, it don't exist! :) And there is Whonix, which runs as a VM.
14 • Rootkits (by Cheker on 2020-10-21 15:56:42 GMT from Portugal)
On the Linux side I use clamav and sometimes rkhunter. I need to get further acquainted with it. On the Redmond side I use Malwarebytes (free) to scan the system every now and then.
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