Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

[Alex Snow]

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.
>
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