19 Oct
2000
19 Oct
'00
4:43 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Tim Harrison wrote:
Hmm, I'm not sure about the rooted part but I have noticed that I get
'probed' (South Park Humor, maybe ;-) almost every day. I have a Firewall
router, IP Chains and TCPD running. I'm on a cable modem 7x24. The reason
for my paranoia was an incident where a SPAM used my machine to bounce
mail (this was about 10 years ago). I was then on a lousy dialup and
noticed the modem lights on constantly when I wasn't doing anything. I
caught it within minutes but decided from then on not to embarass my-
self ever again like that. I know networks, I'm not so sure about
security.
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He's approaching it in his way. If he
patches the hell out of his box,
that's fine. I do it. And guess what? My box is pretty damned
stable. All of my machines are. I keep an eye out for security issues,
look for them myself, and patching is one way. It's a necessity if
you're on the net, as well. Either you keep up, or you get rooted, and
you're reinstalling every two days.
My box has been running for over a year now and I have never been
"rooted". I can't relate to your argument, Chicken Little.