--On 14 August 2004 22:23 +0300 Hank Nussbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Predating this is Bellwether (June 2000):
Indeed. In days of yore, when people developed at least marginally
non-obvious operational techniques, people sent email to nanog about it,
explaining the technique and their
I do miss the old days of this list, technical growth
and global participation in events was exciting...
-her
--- Alex Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--On 14 August 2004 22:23 +0300 Hank Nussbacher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Predating this is Bellwether (June 2000):
Indeed. In
The Washington Post is running a group of stories this weekend about
computer security and the problems a reporter went through with her
Windows 98 computer.
Interestingly, instead of ISPs the articles identify other sources
of frustration for even technically savvy home computer user with
Oh how I agree! I have 3 computers at home and have lived through
rebuilding 2 of them multiple times due to everything stated. My personal
computer has never had to be rebuilt because I run with ZApro and CA AV,
but I came near to it when I took down ZApro for 15 minutes to run a
Retina scan
I put the blame not on the AV vendors but strictly on MS for building a
sieve.
I blame the people who purchase sieves.
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
Retina scan on something and some virus/worm got in and it took some
registry editting and safe mode work to get it removed - and I know what I
am doing.
As far as I know, there is no remotely exploitable hole in windows that
doesn't have a patch
Well, then bad hardware and application software are a lot more prevalant
under Windows than Linux. I install/deinstall games and other application
software all the time under Linux. I have the usage pattern you describe
for others (except the part about patching my system regularly), and I just
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
Retina scan on something and some virus/worm got in and it took some
registry editting and safe mode work to get it removed - and I know
what I
am doing.
As far as I know, there is no remotely exploitable hole in windows that
doesn't have a patch
Note these appear to be WINDOWS security articles.
I've not found a mention of non-windows vulnerabilities..
Hmmm...
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no one will talk to a host that's close[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't
Owen Wrote:
Well, then bad hardware and application software are a lot more
prevalant
under Windows than Linux. I install/deinstall games and other
application
software all the time under Linux. I have the usage pattern you
describe
for others (except the part about patching my system
:
: I put the blame not on the AV vendors but strictly on MS for building a
: sieve.
:
: -Hank
:
I blame the miscreants who are malicious enough to want to cause as much damage
as they can.
MS software has tried for too long to be everything for everyone.
For instance the SP2 for XP now being
JJust to clarify.
SuSe linux can be installed on the first attempt by Windoze-only gurus (I
did such experiment) and never require any command line interaction (except
if you decide to run something complicated). redHat is a good syste... for
admins and servers, not for the home.
-
Bad hardware and application software cause a lot more problems than
the operating system itself.
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Mikael Abrahamssonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bad users cause more problems than everything else combined. Doesn't
matter if you're running windows, bsd, linux, OS X, or whatever. When
a dumb
Maybe you should browse through the SANS archives, plenty of bind, sendmail,
apache, nfs, etc. exploits..
http://www.sans.org/top20/
The problem with *nix, is more with misconfiguration then coding flaws, but
this should not be underestimated. Given the current tendency towards global
At 12:58 PM 08/15/04 -0700, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
SuSe linux can be installed on the first attempt by Windoze-only gurus (I
did such experiment) and never require any command line interaction (except
if you decide to run something complicated).
My then-16-year-old son did the same, building a dual
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:
I agree with Mikael here. If your box is fully patched you need not
worry about that much -- if you are still having problems, check your
assumptions. :) Windows 2003 Web Servers are up unfiltered out there,
there isn't a real reason why a Windows XP
Hi,
We are trying to extend our DNS service system in near
future. In current stage, it consist of 2 SUN FIRE
Server with Solaris8 and BIND9 installed. Each server
is configured with a IP address which is known to our
customers. The DNS server is set up as Cache Server
because it only servers
1. Is that really required to protect DNS server by
firewall?
Yes, it's a very, very good idea to do so.
How does those ISPs, e.g. ATT, Sprint,mae
their DNS system highly available?
By protecting it with a firewall. :-)
Could we do that
by filtering traffic
Joe Shen wrote:
We noticed there is continous name resolution requests
from IP address outside of our address pool and also
there is requests not conforming to DNS documents (
like those from 10/8, 192.168/16 or something for
microsoft proxy server name). We think these request
waste our resource
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