From: Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: Horatio Leragon <hleragon@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 2:11 AM
Subject: Re:
Should I install chkrootkit?
> rkhunter will not help an already compromised machine,
No antivirus for the Microsoft or the Mac platform can rescue an already compromised machine.
> so the machine must be clean when it is first run.
How do you ensure that the machine is "clean"?
> It must be re-initialised after anything is installed or updated.
Its function is oddly similar to a discontinued third party software for Microsoft OS.
> Do you know of Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of the month? (In
Europe, it's the following day)
Yes, I've been a Microsoft customer since Windows 95 and prior to that, MS-DOS.
> No Debian bugfix is held back until an arbitrary date.
I agree. Microsoft works closely with the NSA.