On Thursday 20 September 2001 3:27 am, you wrote: > One post said that Samba (emulating windows file sharing) is vulnerable. This is not true. Only publicly writeable samba shares are vunerable, and only the data stored within the share is (and is vunerable without the worm anway). So as the worm adds no more vunerablilties, basically unless you share your system files as publically writeable (and therefore should be beaten to death with a wet fish) you are perfectly safe. There has only ever been one case of a unix worm propigating, and if i remember correctly, you had to have a very specific set up for it to work (i.e very outdated). All these worms/viruses/trojans etc. only affect people with either IIS servers (microsoft web servers) and outlook (express) email clients. This new one is particulaly bad as it spreads through multiple methods, not just one as most do. Personally, anyone one who seriously considers using a microsoft server is a <<insert profanity here>> idiot, and shouldnt be in charge of a server. Frankly, it proves yet again that microsoft is bottom of the pile for software products (some may disagree). Bottom line, use linux, be happy, no fear from hackers, unless you do something wrong yourself. We are using some of the most cutting edge software in the world, and no one can take that away from us. -- Tom "Tomahawk" Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College
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