Well the best thing is to kill the telnet daemond If you don't need it since that blocks one of the ways into your system that hackers like. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms' > On Wed, 15 May 2002, 'Georgina' wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Well I believe that GNU/Linux is becoming more popular as developers > > such as those with Redhat and Mandrake with their superb installers, > > will attract the attention of hackers who wish to be destructive to > > write viruses that can infect Unix type systems. Perhaps the antivirus > > software producers are just using psychology but over the past year, > > they're producing their products to run under Unix type systems and more > > have appeared on the market. > > One of the biggest problems is the default permissions which can come from > certain apps. I remember there was a warning a year or two ago, that some > packages on some distros had 777 permissions, now if that's not an > invitation, nothing is. > > Cheers. > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
