Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-23 Thread Eric Hattemer
Well, I was at work today and they were talking about how they installed Jaguar on all of our macs. I thought that meant OSX10.2, but since we used to have 10.1 on those, I figure it had to be some special program. But sure enough it was just OS 10.2. So I was thinking that if packagers made

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-23 Thread Robert Green
--- Eric Hattemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But seriously, does Jaguar actually do anything worthy of giving it its own name? -Eric Hattemer I don't keep up on Macs that much (I was told if we went to OSX on my wife's G3 it would be slow as cold molasses), but I do recall reading in the

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-23 Thread Warren Togami
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 15:39, Eric Hattemer wrote: But seriously, does Jaguar actually do anything worthy of giving it its own name? -Eric Hattemer Jaguar is reportedly much faster and smoother than 10.1.

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-19 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:36 am, Jon Reynolds wrote: Would you also recommend using the ximian red-carpet to help install updates as well? When Ximian gnome was becoming stable, I installed it. I installed it because it had a gui in the control panel to set up Internet sharing. It

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:07, Warren Togami wrote: Here's a list of several: Red Hat up2date Mandrake rpmdrake or urpmi SuSE YAST2 Debianapt-get Conectiva apt-rpm Gentooemerge Would you also recommend using the ximian

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread MonMotha
Warren Togami wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:59, Ronnie T Livingston wrote: snip In general there are tremendous time management benefits in sticking to packages. When these security alerts are released, protecting yourself is a trivial amount of effort. Alternatively you can keep around

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 09:36, Jon Reynolds wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:07, Warren Togami wrote: Here's a list of several: Red Hat up2date Mandrakerpmdrake or urpmi SuSEYAST2 Debian apt-get Conectiva apt-rpm Gentoo

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Strode
At first when I heard of Red Carpet, up2date, urpmi, and apt-rpm didn't exist. Actually, urpmi was around a _long_ time before Red Carpet. There were no automatic RPM dependency tools, so I was excited about Mono. Mono? :-) Ximian has always been in bitter disagreements with Red Hat,

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 22:25, Ray Strode wrote: At first when I heard of Red Carpet, up2date, urpmi, and apt-rpm didn't exist. Actually, urpmi was around a _long_ time before Red Carpet. Oh. Thanks for the correction. Was Mandrake using it back then? There were no automatic RPM

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Yuser
Dubbed the Linux.Slapper.Worm, it exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability within OpenSSL, often used in Apache Web servers. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020916S0001 Reading many of the headlines about this is interesting. One of the best was the information from Symantec, the

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Warren Togami
This particular Linux worm, and the worms Code Red Nimda that destroyed many Windows servers were only successful because so many people NEVER apply updates. Patches for OpenSSL (in this case) or IIS (for Nimda and Code Red) were out for months by the time the worm began to spread. You would be

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Jon Reynolds
Warren, after reading this post I was wondering how bad it is to just install everything during the initial install of my OS RH7.3? If you saw my last post to the list I can't even figure out how to get sound to work on my laptop. Whenever I try to just install what I think I need, then try and

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:10, Jon Reynolds wrote: Warren, after reading this post I was wondering how bad it is to just install everything during the initial install of my OS RH7.3? If you saw my last post to the list I can't even figure out how to get sound to work on my laptop. Whenever I try

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Ronnie T Livingston
How would running these automatic updating tools affect your server if you installed apache, mod_ssl, open_ssl by hand and didn't use the default version that came with your distribution?? -Ronnie The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Jon Reynolds
Thats what I was afraid of, I'm thinking now maybe just re-install from scratch with only the things I need and force myself to learn how to install packages and dependencies. But I am gonna try what you have suggested because I've never down that before. Thanks Warren, Jon On Tue, 2002-09-17

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:58, Jon Reynolds wrote: Thats what I was afraid of, I'm thinking now maybe just re-install from scratch with only the things I need and force myself to learn how to install packages and dependencies. But I am gonna try what you have suggested because I've never down

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:59, Ronnie T Livingston wrote: How would running these automatic updating tools affect your server if you installed apache, mod_ssl, open_ssl by hand and didn't use the default version that came with your distribution?? -Ronnie If you installed 3rd party software

[luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-16 Thread Matt Darnell
Experts fear it could create a powerful platform to launch denial-of-service attacks against virtually any target on the Internet. Security vendors are warning users running Linux Apache Web servers that they're vulnerable to attack from the first worm to use peer-to-peer networking technology.