From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 8:25:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cswgraphics.com (host-64-65-195-100.choiceone.net [64.65.195.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0312937B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:25:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from citystamp.com (wanid.cswgraphics.com [64.65.195.58]) by cswgraphics.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA27915; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:22:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C4C40C3.7C714ACE@citystamp.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:24:36 -0500 From: "Matthew P. Marino" Reply-To: bind9@citystamp.com Organization: City Stamp Works Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Stewart Cc: David Loszewski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: n00b question References: <3C49F30B.4070207@mediaone.net> <3C49F4CE.1030804@owt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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