On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:20, Mike Klinke wrote: >On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:08, Mike McCarty wrote: >> I'm a little shocked at this, frankly. I Googled around, and >> found mentions of the Slapper going back to 2002. Why is it that >> this exploit (and variations of it) haven't all been stamped >> out years ago? > >Read the link I posted yesterday, according to them, it's been >rewritten to exploit new ways to get in to your box. > >http://www.lurhq.com/slapperv2.html > If this file mentioned on the site doesn't exist on any of my systems, is it safe to assume relative safety against this attack? I would think so when combined with the ISP's (vz) blocking of port 80, but what do I know... Thats why I asked, Mike. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
