Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day,help the cause

From: Exibar (exibar_at_thelair.com)
Date: 01/16/04

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    To: <tobias@weisserth.de>, <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:40:40 -0500

    >
    > I fail to see how "phishing" (not fishing?) type emails relate to
    > viruses. Those are two totally different types of attack methods. A
    > virus aims for the weakness in a technical system. Sometimes, it may be
    > needing a little social engineering though.
    > Asking somebody to cut his own throat and smile while doing so is
    > genuine social engineering and has nothing to do with the need for a
    > virus scanner or technical defencive measures.
    >
    I agree, it looked like I was melding the two together into "threats" and
    not keeping Viruses/worms separate. Phishing's a new term that's cropped up
    for these types of e-mail's.

    > While you are right that there is the principal threat of "viruses" to
    > Linux too, a virus scanner is not the way to protect against such
    > attacks using Linux.
    >
    > Minimum usage (only deploy services you use)
           ---can be done on a windows box
    > File Integrity Checking
           Would have to run Trip-wire or similliar.
    > Rootkit Detectors (this comes closest to virus scanning)
            A/V scanner will do the job
    > Firewalling
            Windows XP's builti in ICF, or zonelabs, etc
    > Rigid Management Of User Rights
            windows can get pretty granular with user rights and permissions.
    > Encryption
            Windows has built in file Encryption.

    > These are the concepts for protecting a Linux machine.
    >
    > Most of them are missing in Windows. Just adding a personal firewall
    > won't improve matters if the rest of these principles is absent.
    >
    Not really missing from Windows, just a bit more cumbersome to do. I agree
    that just adding a firewall is not the sole answer, neither is just adding
    A/V software.

     Exibar

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