Re: [SLE] NIS, NIS+, Automount which combinations work

On Friday 30 January 2004 8:01 pm, Art Fore wrote:

For awhile, we were getting worms from the Taiwan and India VPN on the network, and if you shared a directory, you would get a worm within about two minutes.

Just curious: who were you sharing directories with that you picked up those worms? Was directory sharing really that open? I'm not familiar with VPN but I'm interested in knowing about the hazards. Paul Abrahams