arctic Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 This theoretical possibility is one reason why Linux packages usually have a check-number. The package managers usually warn you if a package is possibly corrupted or otherwise borked, infected, ... So unless you do something stupid or download infected tar.gz files (which you don't check before installing) you are pretty safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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