And also through containers, like iso images.
Like you said, there have been cases reported. It’s possible to poison an innocuous, non-executable file to attack the program that’s supposed to read it.There are known examples of this kind of exploits using specially crafted image or sound files. Anonimity will at least make you a more difficult target for, say, a hacker. Although, by consequence that may also make you a little more secure. But, just make sure you have macros disabled in your spreadsheet application and you should be fine on that front as well.Is it safer to use a VPN, or just more private?Just more private. As stated, macros in spreadsheets are a bit more complicated. Since those virusses would not be executed/run/downloaded. Since the file cannot be executed, cannot be run there is no virus that it could be infected with. As long as it has no executable code, as long as it is a dumb file, there is no risk. Spreadsheets might have executable code (macros). Is it safe to have an excel spreadsheet with my passwords saved in my home folder, and run eMule to download music, ebooks etc.?Just consider the following – is whatever I am downloading something that has executable code? Music has no executable code, neither do ebooks. There are very few, if any, Linux virusses in the wild and as long as you’re diligent in using the latest distro versions and keeping those updated, you should be able to avoid security holes quite well. In practice however the risk is quite low. As such, there is a very real theoretical risk even when using Linux. Because the very nature of being connected demands that data must be able and must be allowed to transmit between the two machines. Is there any risk of this kind with Ubuntu?Let us be clear – Any system that is connected to another system by definition alone is, to some extent at least vulnerable to intrusion.
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