Linux worm crawls the web, what to do to protect our systems

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 23:35:13 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 16:25, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> what can we do to escape the threat of this worm. 
> Does it need root priviledge?  I am asking this
> because it is an eminent danger and how to secure our
> pcs.

If you are anywhere near up to date with 'yum update' you
shouldn't have a problem with this.  You do have to frequently
check for updates and security issues with any software
you have installed from other sources and keep them up
to date too.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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