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Re: [Alug] Virus on Linux?
by brodders＠cwcom.net 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

This is useful: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue65/lg_toc65.html "A Private Home Network" By Jan Stumpel Here, Jan goes though the steps needed to isolate a linbox from the outside world & still be able to use internet. Some other good articles in that issue too. Steve >on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:18:51AM +0100, Vanisa Surapipith scribbled: >> >> Can virus attact a linux system? People with MSWindows are constantly >> affected and need to update their Norton or McAfee virus scanner. Is there >> a similar thing in linux world? >> > >Yes. <http://www.big.net.au/~silvio/> >However initial infection can be harder because of the multiuser nature of >gnu/linux (and peer review). Worms are far more common. ><http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5080656,00.html> ><http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/01/23/news13.html> > >If you have a high amount of bandwidth, or your isp provides a service such as >cable, you are likely to get scanned (I do atleast once every two days or so) >whether the scan is for open netbios shares or the latest s'kiddie 0day. > >If you do minimal as root, then you significantly reduce the affect of any >infection. Avoiding inherently buggy programs is another useful thing (eg, >wuftpd, pine, bind, vixie's cron, uw imap, qpopper, sendmail). Running minimal >services exposed to the outside world is a must. > >There are scanners, but an ids might be more useful if you're especially paranoid >about such things (snort! rocks. <http://www.snort.org/>) although there is a >tendancy for turning up false positives. > > > >_______________________________________________ >alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list >Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk >http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug >See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! >

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Insurance Co. charges more if a company uses NT than Open Source
by George Waring 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

See: http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2766275,00.html Offered in counter-point to the M$ claim that was made in "That Word Document." The greater security that M$ claims with their OS is not making much of an impression in the insurance industry. Insurance against the damages caused by hacking bears a 5 to 15% higher premium for Windows NT. George.

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Virus on Linux?
by Vanisa Surapipith 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

Hello, I just join ALUG and have a newly installed Red Hat 7.1 on my PC. I hope to explore it fully but there comes a concern on virus. Can virus attact a linux system? People with MSWindows are constantly affected and need to update their Norton or McAfee virus scanner. Is there a similar thing in linux world? Cheers, Vanisa. &------------------------------------------------------------------------& Ms Vanisa Surapipith (Research Postgraduate) School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk /_____T NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom. (x)\/(x) ~~~~~~~~

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Re: [Alug] Virus on Linux?
by MJ Ray 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

Vanisa Surapipith <V.Surapipith(a)uea.ac.uk> writes: > Can virus attact a linux system? People with MSWindows are constantly > affected and need to update their Norton or McAfee virus scanner. Is there > a similar thing in linux world? Viruses could exist on Linux, but they would have trouble infecting other users on the same system, assuming most of your programs are installed as root and you log in as another user. That's why people say you should be very cautious about doing anything other than the bare minimum as root. Worms and intrusions are more common. That's why everyone says to keep up to date with patches and security updates. As your machine was professionally installed, I assume they installed all known security updates? With RedHat, I don't know if there's an automated tool with it, but you can keep safe by reading either the "Security" page of LWN, http://lwn.net/ (out every Thursday), or the regular Security newsletter (out most Saturdays) from http://www.linuxsecurity.com/ -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Documentation, network cards and printers
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

David Freeman wrote: >Network cards: This was what was stopping me getting my printer to >work, my FA311 is dud, the 3Com card works fine, but only at 10Mbps :o( I ought to be an expert on 3com card configuration by now. Is it a 509? have you tried either using the debian 3c5x9utils or the 3c5x9config dos batch file where you can change the card settings? Or more simply, isn't there a config file hanging round somewhere where you specify whether the card will use 10Mbps or 100 or whatever? Jenny

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RE: Microsoft FUD
by Earl Brannigan 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

Hi all, Had to download that article .... fantastic! (Literally.... pure fantasy). Just a comment, the output from running strings on it is actually visible via the document properties if you have MS WORD -file->properties->custom (I'm writing this at work.) Just for clarity , the line "our latest anti-linux paper" is actually the _EmailSubject property. Huh? Well, that means it was the working title used whenever the document was emailed internally. Thus (presumably) it wasn't meant to remain with the article, ... M$ are quite adept at this 'small oversite' completely destroying their arguments thing, ie. No need to read the article, you can see where its coming from. But it will be intersting to check back in a week or so and see if this line has been removed.... cheers Earl

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Its interesting that M$ now appear to be getting very worried about
by tom potts 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

Seems to have found a good way to stop penguins doing anything useful... Do we need to preach to the converted? TOm ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

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Re: [Alug] Re: Microsoft FUD
by MJ Ray 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

"John Seago" <john.seago(a)btinternet.com> writes: > Railing against the defensive manoeuvres of Microsoft does little for your > stress levels and nothing to defeat their public relations drive. Talking about it inside groups like this releases the stress of having this sort of thing waved in our faces by the pointy haired ones, reminds us just *why* it's flawed and does less damage than talking about it in public. Then we can go out and put together some good pro-Linux material, right? (Hey, where's the stuff for the web site that people said they would do?... hrm, where's the piece I'm supposed to write, too? ;-) ) -- MJR

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Re: Microsoft FUD
by John Seago 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

Having read the comments on the Microsoft 'Press Release', May I make a comment? It appears to me that the way to deal with such matters is, as the Americans put it, 'not to get mad but to get even', the way to combat such propaganda is to counter it in public, not to execrate it in private. Promotion of an operating system with which you are all so obviously involved will do more good than venting your ire to each other. I finally took the plunge having read many of the 'Linux' web sites and installed a linux operating system on my computer. At the same time I managed to convince my daughter's boyfriend to do so on his. Each time you gather a new convert you are making another ally for the Free source/Open source movement which will, in time, I am sure become the prevailing operating system. Railing against the defensive manoeuvres of Microsoft does little for your stress levels and nothing to defeat their public relations drive. John Seago

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Re: [Alug] Microsoft FUD
by MJ Ray 22 Jun '01

22 Jun '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > The point is people will beleive him, why should they listen to a group > of geeks? What linux lacks is the marketing machine which can put out > the reverse FUD on MS and thus balance things? I've been quite impressed with the recent xinit and DNUK efforts, but they're still focusing on preaching to the choir in order to sell more of their machines. Hopefully one or both will start in the mainstream Real Soon Now. > [...] Will the mac > with linux/BSD/OS X be able to compete finally on the open market? No. > Apple have got the Ease of use thing down to an art, linux and the FS > communitee have power and reliability down to a tee, so why not mix > both together and we could then really rock the planet? Apple make some quite fundamental user interface errors in the more recent versions of their interface (it's a long time since 1984). I think that looking at all interfaces which have gone before and mixing bits up, picking the best from each, but focusing on simplicity, is the way to heaven. It's what I'm trying to do, anyway. I'll let you know if I succeed... ;-) -- MJR

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