Given the amount of time (and some money) I spent getting and using "anti-hacked box" tools, that is great advice from Len (as usual). Worse, any other boxes that trust that box must be considered tainted, too.
Rob www.iGive.com Turn Shopping Into Philanthropy Len said/quoted ---> >The bigger problem is that there is now probably something vicious on >that box, giving folks the ability to use you as a file store. I used >a software firewall to quickly close the box down, while I could invest >in hardwall firewall. The most conservative position is that a hacked box is untrustable and should be wiped and re-built. I expect Win32 crackers are as good as the Unix crackers and have installed their own binaries for several Windows .exe's and .dll's. Len To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
