Hello,
I'm still having major problems with computer security of
Linux Mint 19 MATE.I believe that with default settings ,this version of
linux is unusable as it gets hacked in a few minutes by bots,mainly via
firefox.
Hi Peter,
Like Piers, your post has piqued my interest. What's your evidence that a default installation of Linux Mint is inherently unsecured?
Based on your assertion I did some rudimentary searching this morning and could not find any evidence to suggest that an out-of-the-box installation of Linux Mint is any less secure than it's progenitors Ubuntu and Debian, notwithstanding any changes that the distro admins at Mint have made that could potentially weaken it. Obviously I making the assumption that such an installation accepted default/suggested options during the install process.
I can't comment on Firefox as on the whole I don't use it, but would have thought that a recent/up to date version of FF would be relatively secure unless deliberately weekend by user action.
So as Piers alludes to, what else is going on?
What evidence do you have that you've been hacked?