I feel you are educating yourself and are safer than you need to be If it is all the same to you, I think I will be the judge of how safe I need to be. Puppy is designed t run from live DVD/CD which can not be written to under any feasible scenario. It is therefore inherently more secure than BSD o...

Hi nooby, I use noscript and find it very good. It's a pain at the start when you have to train it but it seems a wise program to use. I was wondering if Lobster was using it and it still got through. I also use adblock plus, changed the password on my router, ensured the router firewall is running...

@RandSec, thanks for your follow-up. I have always run ALL PUPs in "Live" mode (no matter if in test=regular reboots or for production=seldom reboot/year. And, yes, security is tantamount in their use. "Live" mode has been flawless until latest release where I'm experiencing reb...

I use LiveDVD exclusively, on DVD+RW, mostly successfully. But I just got into Puppy at version 4 and went through a lot of trial and error getting things to work. At first just assumed I was doing something wrong and could never find instructions, then that the system had problems and would be imp...

BTW: When the next update to Fatdog comes, is it possible to include dvd+rw tools http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~pcs/apps/linux_dvdr_burning.html AND a GUI or a simple Utility Menu entry that will run a script to FORMAT a DVD+RW instead of BLANKING it? I seem to be having a lot of problems with DVD+R...

RandSec then do that I don't mind. How can we make Lupu as secure as possible. I can offer some insights, but security is a continuing process of fixing some problems and then being surprised by new problems. One current 5.2.5 issue is to get the firewall up and ON before any network transactions. ...

Sorry I do apology. We have to start a new thread about these attempts to make us totally owned by the software provider Ms or Google or Apple whatever. Puppy Linux has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become a real alternative to Microsoft Windows, albeit in the particular area of online bankin...

I use Firefox because add-ons provide security features not available on other browsers. . Opera incorporates security features in the browser and always has done. Firefox is a Johnny-come-lately! But does it really have the best lineup of security features? Since I know nothing about Opera securit...

* There is a Law suggestion that the whole of Euopean Union would go over to a install on every computer a Windows anti-vir that tell the ISP that one are clear on the computer one use. * They could make such a law, but they cannot make malware obey. So this may not really be about malware. Microso...

tasmod wrote:I don't want to get into the argument about default firewall either on/off at starting.

There is no need to argue: The firewall should be ON by default, at first startup, before any network access. Not doing that is an obvious security flaw. This is just another bug which needs fixing.

In firewallstate the code routine for turning the firewall on/off was originally meant to be for testing purposes, I never meant it to 'kill' the firewall program. [...] I suppose I could add another option in the stop/start small window that would 'kill' the firewall preventing further boot starts...

2. I'm using this method to make the Lucid-Puppy [Lupu-525] treat lupusave on the HDD as if it's a lupusave on a Flash Drive.... So I'm asked at shut-down whether I want "to save or not to save". It's working just fine. :D Might something like that work to treat flash drive storage as if ...

I am wondering if by using something like Gparted, you could recreate a SD Card into two partitions. Then you should be able to make one readonly be removing rights at the root. just an idea When we learn about the OS, we learn about the OS the way it was designed, which is not how it is when malwa...

How can we duplicate that to USB for us that have no CD nor DVD player such as on Netbook Acer D250 10" sized mini laptops? Why can not a usb be made safe that way? Or a frugal on the hdd install? Well you can't really as the media is rw (though I guess with some clever code it could be done a...

The firewall needs to be up by default before the first network transaction is allowed. (Originally, that would be me, RandSec.) Not quite. Only if your machine(s) has/have already been cloned. Those old network attacks were not simply a response to user error, but were actually able to reach in fr...

That was something that had to be done to Firewall status. Make it delay working, to give time for the network to come on line. Take a look next time you reboot. Firewall status will show up in tray about 30 seconds after you get a desktop. Maybe the firewall should be in place all the time, and th...

On PUP522, QuickPET>More PETs>Update PPM. when it completes, it instructs to reboot. Since I'm on a LiveCD, Is this a one-time occurrance or will I be required to REBOOT each time this is invoked? Thanks in advance With live cd (or usb) you have to make a save file somewhere or it's starting from f...

RandSec There does seem to be a coincidence in the device ID's but the current filter fails to work. I have put in a different filter.. see how it goes. Curious that you got the correct recommendation with 256/257. That would suggest that it's a name change issue from luci to lupu. I'll look into t...

RandSec, Do you still have luci-257? If so, could you boot that and run this same command 01micko posted? Thanks. Can you post the output of "lspci -nn".. to make it easy for you to paste, run the command as follows and your result will be in a text file called "myfile" in the r...

Strangely, it also displays a comment that "nVidia is installed, but the driver is not working." Well, it certainly WAS installed, but then uninstalled from the PPM, which now reports that the driver is no longer installed. So somebody is not getting with the program. To apply the patch, ...