Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (332 mails)

[Ben <willcu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:59:30 +0300 (EAT), Noah Sematimba  
<sematin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Logged off, or Turned off?  Makes a big difference.
> > >
> > > Many nics nowdays are always hot, so that you can
> > > use wake-on-lan.  But they should not make an outgoing
> > > connection.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Um, Logged off, Can they do that while logged off?
> > Thankyou for your reply
>
> I've seen many MS windows machines make outgoing connections even when
> logged off especially if they have spyware or some kind of malware
> installed on them.
>
> For a unix/linux machine, there are many possibilities including  
> scheduled
> cron/ AT jobs, daemons listening in the background that need some kind of
> connectivity etc...
>
> Noah.

Thankyou for your reply.
                        Yes i know that is true with linux but
it seems that it is MS that is causing the offending here, I know this
is suse-security but is there anything you could suggest to find out why
this is happening, I will be changing over to suse but to be able to
show my boss how MS is the cause would help in the move over to suse.
Also i seem to not be able to use suse at home as a firewall/router
I have two suse 9.1 and i want to use suse(box 1) eth0=cable modem to
eth1=(suse2) but i caint seem to share inet access? Is there ICS for suse?
i caint find even a setting for it?
could you help me with this?
thankyou if you can + thankyou if ya caint, lol

yours...Ben


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