You don't say what distribution of Linus you have installed. If it is
Redhat any earlier then the current 6.1 and if you have not disabled these
serb=vices which you do not want then you have a system that is wide open
to compromise, which you probably have already had done anyway.
If you don't know how to run Linux then you should pay for expert
assistance before connecting it to the net. Linux is much stronger then
Windows but for the same reason it can be more dangerous in inexperienced
hands.
Howard.
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Nelson N wrote:
> Hi, we've got a linux machine between our lan and the net which is runnning
> all our services, ip masq and sendmail basically.. since i dont know jack
> all about linux (yet) i hardly ever touch the machine. this morning i logged
> on to be kindly notified that root account has new mail, 2400 odd emails in
> fact, all msg's from Mailer-Daemon with Subject "Returned mail: User
> unknown". there is a rather large amount of spam being distributed via our
> server and bandwidth, naturally this is giving me shits esp because i dont
> know how to stop it (besides the off switch) any quick fix would be
> appreciated till i get a chance to read up and fix it properly..
>
> thanx
> nelson
>
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