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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and User Security
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> from fraud.  This is just under $25 000 000.  The article credited this loss
> largely due to the use of spyware.
>
> My question is how secure is FreeBSD (including KDE, GNOME and XFCE) to

do not include that programs to FreeBSD. they are not it's part. it's just 
few of thousand programs that can run under FreeBSD.