Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

[Gregory Nowak]

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>
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> 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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