Linux worm crawls the web, what to do to protect our systems

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:25:23PM -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> what can we do to escape the threat of this worm. 
> Does it need root priviledge?  I am asking this
> because it is an eminent danger and how to secure our
> pcs.

I believe this is covered by Fedora Core 4 update FEDORA-2005-810, Fedora
Core 3 update FEDORA-2005-809, and Red Hat's RHSA-2005:748-01.

So the answer is: keep your system up to date with patches.

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