Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:24:36 -0500 From: "Matthew P. Marino" <bind9@citystamp.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: n00b question Message-ID: <3C4C40C3.7C714ACE@citystamp.com> References: <3C49F30B.4070207@mediaone.net> <3C49F4CE.1030804@owt.com>
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Be careful about the "other trojans" statement. Yes, there are trojans that will affect BSD. Kent Stewart wrote: > > David Loszewski wrote: > > > correct me if I'm wrong but FreeBSD systems can not get the code red > > right and other trojans, just Microsoft OS's? > > Code Red affects MS OSes. It irritates Apache by inflating the > httpd-logs. It started out affecting only poorly maintained NT based > servers running IIS, which is their server. If the sysadmins updated > their servers with critical updates available back in July 2001, IIS > was immune to Code Red and many of the other worms and etc. Now they > have to install Windows 2000 and add the patch before they connect to > the internet. If they don't, they can be infected by Code Red before > they can download the patches from Microsoft. > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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