On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:45:09 +0200 (CEST), Sven Koch <haegar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.50.0303300742500.3375-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Steve Quartly wrote: > > > Yes, cleaning the system was my next priority, however > > I thought it necessary to secure the machine first as > > I didn't want to go through all this again, in case it > > happened again before I had a working firewall. > > First thing to do before putting a new machine into the wild: > Install all available security updates! .._meanwhile_, set up a temporary box with for example ipcop-1.2.0, find it over at http://ipcop.org/ . ..this will not do stateful firewalling if you need that, but we also have people using stateful 1.3betas in businesses out there. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
