Please don't take this post as an attempt at being alarmist. I found it interesting and thought that the subscribers would find it interesting since Mandrake is based on RedHat. Picked it up from my work account. Cheers, Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Federal security rules for financial firms issued as 'guidelines' . . much deleted... . 'Ramen' worm hits some Red Hat Linux servers An Internet worm called Ramen has been affecting Linux-based servers running some versions of Red Hat's software over the past week, although security analysts said they haven't seen any permanent damage thus far. http://computerworld.com/cwi/story/0%2C1199%2CNAV47_STO56475_NLTpm%2C00.html . . more deleted... .