[Fedora] Seeing input on Securing the Linux system from intrusions and attacks.
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Dec 30 09:49:00 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 08:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> It was more than a year ago when I attempted to install a Windows 2000
> system directly connected to the internet. In fact, before the system
> was fully updated with security patches it had been compromised. I
> didn't time it, but it certainly was less than 30 minutes.
That happened to a friend of mine. It was something like four seconds
after connecting to his ISP he got infected, despite my warnings about
putting a firewall on first. He didn't think he'd need it, he had
anti-virus software installed, and thought nothing could happen that
quickly, despite my assurances to the contrary.
To make matters worse, he couldn't remove the infection - his anti-virus
software didn't stop the infection, and wouldn't remove it. So he
reformatted and re-installed. An hour or so later he reconnected, and
got infected just the same way, and in just a few seconds, and couldn't
undo the damage (the virus was better at protecting itself than Windows
was). I nearly fell off the chair laughing at him.
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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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