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

From: brenda (b29651_at_charter.net)
Date: 01/16/04

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:22:54 -0500

    question on this?
    maybe i am more disillusioned than i thought but if i patch and update how can
    i be as vuknerable as on windows?
    i run a program called killerwall as my firewall
    it is a script that uses ipchains or iptables .i chose iptables because of my
    reading and thinking this was safer.
    i dont understand how rootkits work tho and my reading has not helped my
    understanding of this very much.
    i dont do downloads except with acceptable ftp sites .no music/movies stuff.in
    fact my only downloads have have been with urpmi?
    can rootkits be used this way?
    apologizing for my ignorance ahead of time but i am hoping to learn
    br3n

    > That's true. I just want to remember about the guy with the rootkit
    > which I asked about. Running SuSE Linux, patching regularly and thought
    > he was safe while running an unpatched PHPNuke installation. Ouch. :-)

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