[email protected] wrote: > Hi > I think year ago we talk about “read only chip” where operating system > will be on read only chip and benefit of that. > Right now I think it is imperative to go back to read only chip not to > start computer faster but to solve a virus problem. > I have a home network supported by a PC running Ubuntu. It has the standard Linux firewall on it. People have found vulnerabilities in the web server and other software, and have made it do odd things like send spam. But, they haven't actually broken fully into the machine since about 2004 (on much older Linux software). Not for lack of trying, I used to get thousands of attempts a day. I put in an optional program denyhosts and set very restrictive tolerance on it, and it has cut down the number of attacks enormously. It looks for several failed login attempts on any account or TCP port, and puts the source IP address on the hosts.deny list, so they can't access the computer at all through any service. It basically detects hostile botnets and locks them out very quickly.
Anyway, I have never had the attackers get past the server/firewall and even attempt to do anything to the other machines in the local net. Since these machines have no WAN address, you have to compromise the server before you can even detect the local machines. I have NEVER seen anything like a true Windows virus on Linux. These botnets are directed by real people who send them on missions to crack into other machines, mostly to expand the botnet and use it for spamming or similar purposes. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
