securety
John Heim
jheim at math.wisc.edu
Wed Dec 12 17:30:49 UTC 2007
Jude,
I don't suppose you would explain how hackers got the root kits installed,
would you? I think it would be helpful if you explained what they did and
what you did to stop them.
I've had only 2 security issues in my career. I can explain how they
happened but they probably won't be real useful. Both problems were on my
Windows machine. One time I installed a virus by accidently clicking on an
email attachment. That was just a accidental key press. The other thing was
that i got malware on my Windows PC by going to a malicious web site. I was
not running anti-virus software at the time because it slowed the machine
down too much.
So I don't really have any useful advice other than to not accidently press
the wrong key when reading mail and run anti-virus software on your Windows
PC.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: securety
> arnos-iptables-firewall is accessible and still under active support. you
> can get it with apt-get install arnos-iptables-firewall. It's pretty easy
> to set up too. It needs to know what you use in terms of an ethernet port
> to connect to the internet usually that's eth0 and you protect your web
> interface with ppp+ keyed in space separated when asked. Unless you have
> very good reasons to open ports you're asked about after that leave the
> defaults in place. The area where I live is under active hacker attack and
> my computer was victimized more than once (actually found root kits on it
> more than once). But then again some neighborhoods are hotter for hackers
> than others when they have other inviting targets in them. I had to
> upgrade my dsl modem to a westel 327w and got help from another programmer
> who came over and set it up and he ran my computer against
> http://www.grc.com and the shields up link and found the computer was
> truely stealthed which means its profile is too low for hackers to locate.
> Each of us will have a different security experience to report over time
> though.
>
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