Hi,
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, George Toft wrote:
> I'm sorry for chasing after the money and abandoning the one true
> Linux. I was confused.
>
> So what really changed my mind? My Red Hat box was my router to the
> net via cable modem. I thought I had it pretty secure (TCP-wrappers
> with a deny all policy, firewall, and only telnet and ftp available in
> inetd.conf) and all errata applied, but lo and behold, the "Millenium
> Internet Worm" got in and attacked my LAN and a whole slew of machines
> on the 'Net. My ISP sent me a nastygram telling me to knock-off the
> hacking.
>
> In the post-mortem, guess what was completely unaffected (except for
> making my logs bigger) - all of my SuSE 5.3 boxes. So now I have SuSE
> 6.0 on my router and I gave Red Hat the boot.
Welcome back :)
It might be interesting to know, what exactly hindered the virus from
infecting the SuSE 5.3 boxes. Different path names or less security holes?
Bye,
LenZ
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