[wellylug] Why security for home PCs could be more important than you realise

[Donald Gordon]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:17:44 +1300 (NZDT) Ilia Pavlenko <ip at globe.net.nz> wrote:

> Well - That's a nice topic for a meeting :)
> 
> First of all - FORGET TELNET, ONLY SSH !!! (i've been screwed for using
> telnet - someone "sniffed" and rootkitted a SuSE-based server that i've
> built...

ssh is more convenient, anyway: I don't need to type my username at a
prompt :-)

> Second - if you don't need it - disable it :) Thats why i always go for
> "custom" installs, and leave what I don't need.

A good tool for this is lsof|grep IPv4 - it'll show you which
*processes* are listening on various ports, something that can be
otherwise difficult to ascertain.

don

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