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List:       systalk
Subject:    Re: [Systalk]Linux Router
From:       Jon <thechunk () home ! com>
Date:       2001-12-16 4:10:54
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??? Someone felt safer on a windos box?


On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:46:00AM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
> I suppose, I knew that icq is quite rough too. My friend told me that once
> someone could've got him if he was using linux and format the whole hd, but
> he was using windows at the time, think on a dialup probably. The real
> trouble is that many isps will deactivate you if they discover open ports
> on the machine, would hate that just as much.
> At 07:20 PM 12/13/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >Brent Harding wrote:
> >> 
> >> What's so bad about leaving ping open? I suppose, that's what cable and dsl
> >> providers use against you when you run linux, and don't close every single
> >> service on the box.
> >
> >And not only that, I live on a rough network (kinda' like living in a
> >rough neighborhood).  My daughter, who likes to use MSN alot, managed to
> >p**s off a rather well tooled hacker, who in turn managed to root my box
> >about 3 months ago.  So just closing every door I can think of.  I even
> >eliminated every Windows machine on the network.  My daughter now has to
> >use KDE/KMerlin to chat with her MSN friends, which she found she
> >actually likes better than the downloadable chat client that M$ offers. 
> >I used to run BIND in the box, and that's how it got rooted.  BIND is
> >now gone as I use DNS on our company servers instead of doing my own. 
> >I'm still running smtp on it, but I'll close that one too if there's an
> >exploitable hole there.  I'm using qmail, so I don't think so, but I
> >don't trust anybody anymore.
> >-- 
> >Chris Olson - Barron,  WI
> >
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