The best, best thing is to kill everything in inetd.conf that you don't use. Greg On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:03:34PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote: > 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 at bigfoot.com> > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
