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Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day,help the cause
From: "Exibar" <exibar () thelair 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 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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