Hi all, after the recent spat of MS virus attacks & a mention or two of Linux root kits, I decided to get a little smarter about my online time. Firstly I installed firehol (firehol.sourceforge.net) and set up a simple firewall for my ppp0 line, basically "run no services, allow only requested packets".
Then to somewhat verify my system I ran a root kit checker - which turned up nothing. NOTE - I have no reason to think I've been hacked, just going through the motions. >From what I can tell, this should add a decent layer of protection for a casual >dialup user. I am now also considering using Tripwire (www.tripwire.org) or AIDE >(http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html) to ensure that my system is OK. Anyone use either Tripwire or AIDE? Thoughts, best practices, etc? At the moment I'm not overly worried about this as just a dialup box...but at some stage in the future I'll be on a faster connection & want to make sure I know what I am doing. Feedback is welcome :) Cheers Brad
