On Sunday 13 June 2004 05:54, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sunday 13 June 2004 15:32, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
This is a true statement, but you left out the part about; Should you connect to tne net, *before* you go get the security patches, chances are your machine wont be infected before you can get to the ftp site and get your patches!
Oh, yeah, and both Windows 2000 and XP include a basic packet filter you can enable before you online to get your patches. Both these have proved enough to keep Sasser and its buddies out until you have all the patches installed and your antivirus updated.
-- Kind regards Hans du Plooy
But Ma and Pa Polyester don't know about those, and they are hard to find and are not turned on by default. That's the problem. OTOH, SuSE installs in a very secure state by default. (RedHat installs insecure by default, but, with the same codebase, Trubolinux installs secure). By insecure here I mean it has too many services open and running by default - not that there are major security flaws). Still, a Insecure RedHat fresh install will not become infected or hacked before you can secure it. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen