Kat, If you MUST do remote access on your *nix box, never use Telnet -- use ssh2 instead. It's encrypted and secure (well, as secure as anything gets -- nothing is totally crack-proof!) Anytime someone asks me to take a look at their Linux boxes, the= first things I make sure to do is turn off all unused services, kill Telnet and wu-ftp. Those steps alone keep most linux boxes reasonably secure. (wandering off course a bit) My very first Linux box (Redhat 6.1)= was cracked through a wu-ftp exploit. I had read about it, so I pulled the network plug to the internet router and proceeded to see if I could crack my own box from a local machine. It took about 10 minutes and I had root access! It was the wee hours of the morning by then, so I made a mental note shutdown wu-ftp and= disable it before I went to bed. I already had downloaded ProFTP= to replace it. The next morning I got up and saw that the link light for my server was not "on", so not thinking clearly I plugged the network cable into the router. About noon, I went back to the server area and saw the activity light for the server link going crazy. Knowing that the ftp and web server should be "down", I thought it was odd that there was= so much network activity going on. Then I remembered... I quickly= checked my logs and found that someone had used the same wu-ftp exploit and had cracked my box only minutes earlier!!! D'OH!!! So I quickly pulled the plug again, gathered all the log files (the cracker had not had time yet or was too stupid to cover his= tracks) and sent them off to his ISP's abuse department. The next= day I got an email from them saying his cable modem account had been terminated. So at least some good came of it. After a fresh install, all was well and the server was up and running for over a year with no security breaches. Linux systems= are only as secure as their administrators make them... Matt Pobursky Maximum Performance Systems On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:38:47 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: >Ok, > >I love FreeBsd, it is yet to let me down (I let me down the= last >time, ended up in hospital the day a major bug was found and my >box got hacked through telnet :o(( ) > >I found FreeBSD to be the easiest to install. > >Regards, > >Kat. > >________________________________________________________________= _ >___________ /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | K.A.Q. >Electronics \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | Software and >Electronic Engineering X - NO Word docs in e-mail | >Perth Western Australia / \ >| Ph +61 419 923 731 >________________________________________________________________= _ >___________ > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Ferrell" To: > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 7:25 >AM Subject: Re: [OT]: What is Windows XP? > > >> As soon as I can migrate off this machine, >>Format/fdisk/reload, & migrate back I will have a machine >>available to give Linux. It may take 30 to 60 days. >> The questions: >> >> Where do I start? What version/flavor do I get and where >>should I get it? >> How much machine is needed? memory/speed/disk? >> What are the trade offs? >> >> I am asking here because I think a PIC list answer will be >>more accurate than on a Linux group! >> >> John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: >>(336)685-9606 Dixie Competition Products NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 >>W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dale Botkin" To: >> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:05 >>PM Subject: Re: [OT]: What is Windows XP? >> >> >> > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Herbert Graf wrote: > > > Hehe, I've >>got a Linux machine acting as a router on my network and >the >> only > > time I have to reboot it is when power goes out! So >>far my uptime is: > > > > 08:36:55 up 125 Days (3006h) >> > > > > I guess that's how long it's been since my last power >>outage! :) TTYL > > Had mine up to 300+ at the old house... >>it was on a UPS. >>It's my >router, >> > firewall, SMTP, DNS, Web, POP3, SQL and everything else >>server, as well >as >> > where I do some code testing. Right now it's 80 days and >>counting. >> > > Dale > > -- >> > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out >>subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See >>http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out >>subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See >>http://www.piclist.com/#topics >> >> > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out >subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See >http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics