Thanks everyone for your reports. I've got to find some way of capturing the culpret. I have another system coming online in another day or 2. I'll try it there as well ALSO, I have been using my FATDOG almost exclusively for burning CDRWs on one of its 2 DVDRW drives. Maybe there something in the ...

But OK, now how do you know that malware has not given you a malware save file? Presumably this flash is booting on a Windows machine with a hard drive, so how do you know? By adding "pfix=ram" to my syslinux.cfg file. That's something else that you can test. Or I could simply check the c...

Playdayz , my apologies for taking part in the derailment of your thread :oops:. Forgive me for my noobish post. RandSec , maybe, just maybe, Puppy might not be the ultimate security tool that you pursue, root and all . Perhaps, one of the the following distributions would offer some enhanced secur...

Does that work? Have you tried it? Yes and yes. As of my repeated experience with flash-drive Puppy as of about 2 months ago, Puppy insists that the boot drive NOT be unmounted and removed. As far as I know, using normal desktop operations, Puppy simply DOES NOT ALLOW unmounting the boot drive, whi...

Seaside described him first making a pupsave with his personal preferences and then making an .sfs file out of it that is not writeable too. Would not that allow us to make a more save version of puppy? First of all, we cannot trust software write-protect permissions to prevent malware from writing...

But unless and until Puppy changes, I cannot see a way for a USB flash boot drive to be both secure and offer practical support for browser security updates. Keep the latest version of your browser on the flash drive as a PET. That's easy to do with Firefox. Boot off the flash drive with NO savefil...

That would work for non-writeable CD and such DVD? But only on USB and HDD if them could be set to nonwriteable or how else to do it? Most of the optical media we would use are in fact writable, although the writing process is both longer and more visible than a hard drive or even flash drive write...

Re "bad steak", a good critic (at least the ones I respect) will either say the restaurant bought poor quality meat, the cook overcooked it, or the spicing was inappropriate and state what must be done in detail to correct it, etc. So, criticizing the security of Puppy without delineating...

Luluc wrote: PROVE what you're saying. If you can't do it yourself, fine, just point us to any page that describes the necessary steps to achieve this kind of magic of which you speak so often. Is that asking too much? Just prove it, dammit! +1 Yes, pleeeeaaaase. One concrete example. ONE only! -2 ...

Once malware gets into even a restricted user account, it can do anything that user could do, including changing privilege levels. Remember: malware can put an attacker inside your machine in real time via broadband. What have you been smoking? I want some of that too! PROVE what you're saying. If ...

Good review of Lucid Puppy 5.25 in Distrowatch Weekly: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110418 Yes, a good review, and a refreshing change from the general anti-security tone around here. The root user discussion and thoughts about malware were particularly interesting. I especially liked:...

RandSec Are your CD problems partly due to the Sound being muted on startup? I noticed on my frugal install that sometimes I would boot up and the icon in the tray at the bottom right of the screen shows the sound muted. After a while it mysteriously corrects itself and has volume (75% I think). My...

Testing as I'm posting.....put a Earth, Wind and Fire cd in the optical drive, the disc showed up as sr0. Clicked the icon and pCD started playing, no problem. OK, that is how it is supposed to work! My 3 systems have very similar hardware, and a very similar applications install (before some indiv...

While running 5.2.5 loaded from LiveDVD, I wanted to listen to a simple music CD. All-in-all, 3 different players failed: Gnome, Pmusic and pCD. By "failed" I mean they locked up tight and had to be killed. This happened multiple times, with no sound produced. This system routinely plays v...

By the way. I've noticed whingeing about the firewall not being on by default etc. Security issues in Puppy. This crap from a Windows bloke. Give it a rest. I suppose such incisive criticism deserves a response. First, I expect that we will all live longer if we learn to accept and embrace changes ...

@Randsec, Luluc et.alt. The security stuff you talk about may or may not be relevant. Since you are not convinced that security is relevant, you probably would not give security all that much weight in your design decisions. I assume that is how Puppy has gotten where it is, which is my point: We n...

Talking about the possibility of infection, If one has wine installed, does that give malware a door to infect the wine drive_c? Apparently some Windows malware can run in Linux with Wine installed. Evidently yes; but I think I remember still some (free) virus protection (AVG free ....?) will work ...

There is a problem where LiveCD can no longer boot after "Saved to CD" is done on reboot/shutdown. Several members have already tried to duplicate this on their system. I have this phenomenon on 3 different systems, Here's some more information for this community to look at as we try to I...

Puppy Lucid is secure. :) Well, let us just see: At first start Puppy pushes itself online without authorization and without first putting a firewall in place. Does that sound secure to you? There you go at that subject again. Please. You're making a fuss over nothing. I think it a good place to st...

8-bit wrote:Talking about the possibility of infection, If one has wine installed, does that give malware a door to infect the wine drive_c?

Apparently some Windows malware can run in Linux with Wine installed.