On Mon, May 14, 2012, Eli Billauer wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Is the risk real?
(Was: New mail icon for Thunderbird over Gnome)":
> Exploiting machines as a platform for your own nasty business is
> probably the most common reason to attack a personal desktop. It's
> als
Two interesting cases indeed, but neither matching my question: The
first one was a Windows machine and the second we don't know.
Exploiting machines as a platform for your own nasty business is
probably the most common reason to attack a personal desktop. It's also
the situation with the leas
1. My parents' Windows machine got infected with a very hard-to-get-rid-of
virus that turned their machine, which was no server at all, into an SMTP
machine, and used it for massive mail operations.
2. When I was a checker for Wikipedia, I could check the IP of registered
users who violated Wikipe
Indeed, it's wise to have the firewall up.
But what I tried to figure out, was if something real actually happened
to someone. Port scanning is indeed unpleasant to watch if you're
unprotected, but would something really happen if you dropped your
firewall? Would whoever scanned those ports at
at least in the past - the risk was real.
when i first connected my computer to the internet via ADSL, and set up
firewall rules - i was surprised to see that i get many (hundreads) of
failed network connections from around the world.
what people do, is run software that scans complete addre
Hi,
Since my not-so-updated software versions became an issue in itself
(somehow I always get that) I wondered: Leave alone the unpleasant
feeling of knowing your computer *could* be exploited, are there any
real cases of attacks against personal, non-server Linux machines? The
need to protect
