"Tell em, don't open mail from people you don't know"... have you actually looked at the majority of viruses that have come out over the past 3 years? Viruses these days are more likely to come from people you know, making this piece of advice laughable.
I would recommend that you pose this question on a security mailing list that sans.org runs specifically for University Systems Administrators. Send an email with "subscribe unisog" in the body (not the subject) to majordomo@sans.org to subscribe.
"Tell em, don't open mail from people you don't know"... have you actually looked at the majority of viruses that have come out over the past 3 years? Viruses these days are more likely to come from people you know, making this piece of advice laughable.
I would recommend that you pose this question on a security mailing list that sans.org runs specifically for University Systems Administrators. Send an email with "subscribe unisog" in the body (not the subject) to majordomo@sans.org to subscribe.
Unfortunately for you, everything in Unix is a file.
I don't know for sure what you mean by "support", but RedHat 6.0 did ship with KDE as well, if you choose to install it.
-- KS