Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day,help the cause

[brenda <b29651 () charter net>]

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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