* Patrick Shanahan;
No, I agree. I do not believe he is *skilled* ??computer wise?? at all. I have had my web-site up since just before New Years and it is only advertised in my sig so it is probably someone who has read one of the mail lists I have responded and stored my address. He first hit me
No that does not have to be
11 Mar and to date I have logged 1333 access attempts in httpd/access_log.
Then no one has yet hit you seriosly yet 5281 253K DENY tcp -y---o 0xFF 0x00 This nice gentleman coming from an Asian IP has made of 253 K traffic in less then 3 minutes ( that is when I had to stop him before that my logs were also filled with almost all known vulnerabilities possible on Linux Windows Sun/Cobalt Solaris Aix)
Of 22,000 lines in httpd/access_log, ~13,500 are *probably* virus access attempts. That is appalling. This traffic approaches or exceeds the weight of spam traffic.
There is not much you can do either stop offering services to the world or secure your servers chrooting is a very good idea along with DMZ and Intrusin Detection And no these will also 100 % guarantee that you will not have these and you will not be 100 % safe So relax -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx