Cleaning up an infected system
Cleaning up an infected system
Posted Oct 1, 2011 15:53 UTC (Sat) by abacus (guest, #49001)In reply to: The word from kernel.org by welinder
Parent article: The word from kernel.org
The approach I prefer is not to allow any inbound connections from the Internet on a kernel development system. Helps a lot to prevent infections :-)
Posted Oct 1, 2011 20:30 UTC (Sat)
by robbe (guest, #16131)
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Exploiting network-facing daemons is so last century.
Blocking inbound connections
A lot of recent high-profile breakins (Google, RSA, come to mind) were done by exploiting holes in normal client software (mostly written by Adobe -- which either speaks to its lack of quality, and/or ubiquity).