On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:21:22AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Just wanted to mention that on our network, when Kazaa Lite is run (throught > the Linux box), portsentry hack attempts increase at least 5-fold. This is > not coincidence IMNSHO. A person I know on another home network was > completely rootkitted, and virii installed on all 3 client PCs even with > Norton's installed on the client PCs, and portsentry and tripwire on the > Linux box.
Hm, but - see other thread - neither portsentry nor tripwire are tools to prevent these things, I thought? > Kazaa seems to 'open' the boxes substantially. No idea how exactly - but I > can't ignore the results here. Question would be: Does it touch or circumvent the firewall rules, and if so: How? Is this client run with root privileges? Cheerio, Thomas -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html ...'cause only lusers quote signatures! Thomas Ribbrock | http://www.ribbrock.org | ICQ#: 15839919 "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
