Jude,
I don't suppose you would explain how hackers got the root kits installed,
would you? I think it would be helpful if you explained what they did and
what you did to stop them.
I've had only 2 security issues in my career. I can explain how they
happened but they probably won't be real useful. Both problems were on my
Windows machine. One time I installed a virus by accidently clicking on an
email attachment. That was just a accidental key press. The other thing was
that i got malware on my Windows PC by going to a malicious web site. I was
not running anti-virus software at the time because it slowed the machine
down too much.
So I don't really have any useful advice other than to not accidently press
the wrong key when reading mail and run anti-virus software on your Windows
PC.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: securety
arnos-iptables-firewall is accessible and still under active support. you
can get it with apt-get install arnos-iptables-firewall. It's pretty easy
to set up too. It needs to know what you use in terms of an ethernet port
to connect to the internet usually that's eth0 and you protect your web
interface with ppp+ keyed in space separated when asked. Unless you have
very good reasons to open ports you're asked about after that leave the
defaults in place. The area where I live is under active hacker attack and
my computer was victimized more than once (actually found root kits on it
more than once). But then again some neighborhoods are hotter for hackers
than others when they have other inviting targets in them. I had to
upgrade my dsl modem to a westel 327w and got help from another programmer
who came over and set it up and he ran my computer against
http://www.grc.com and the shields up link and found the computer was
truely stealthed which means its profile is too low for hackers to locate.
Each of us will have a different security experience to report over time
though.
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