securety

[John Heim]

Jude,

I don't suppose you would explain how hackers got the root kits installed, 
would you? I think it would be helpful if you explained what they did and 
what you did to stop them.

I've had only 2 security issues in my career. I can explain how they 
happened but they probably won't be real useful. Both problems were on my 
Windows machine. One time I installed a virus by accidently clicking on an 
email attachment. That was just a accidental key press. The other thing was 
that i got malware on my Windows PC  by going to a malicious web site. I was 
not running anti-virus software at the time because it slowed the machine 
down too much.

So I don't really have any useful advice other than to not accidently press 
the wrong key when reading mail and run anti-virus software on your Windows 
PC.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: securety


> arnos-iptables-firewall is accessible and still under active support. you 
> can get it with apt-get install arnos-iptables-firewall.  It's pretty easy 
> to set up too.  It needs to know what you use in terms of an ethernet port 
> to connect to the internet usually that's eth0 and you protect your web 
> interface with ppp+ keyed in space separated when asked.  Unless you have 
> very good reasons to open ports you're asked about after that leave the 
> defaults in place. The area where I live is under active hacker attack and 
> my computer was victimized more than once (actually found root kits on it 
> more than once).  But then again some neighborhoods are hotter for hackers 
> than others when they have other inviting targets in them.  I had to 
> upgrade my dsl modem to a westel 327w and got help from another programmer 
> who came over and set it up and he ran my computer against 
> http://www.grc.com and the shields up link and found the computer was 
> truely stealthed which means its profile is too low for hackers to locate. 
> Each of us will have a different security experience to report over time 
> though.
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