From owner-freebsd-security Thu May 21 09:17:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01856 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 09:17:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01846 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 09:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA15419 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 20:17:29 +0200 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id SAA21144 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id SAA05380; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:15:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980521181555.59333@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:15:55 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virus on FreeBSD References: <199805210018.RAA04596@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> <199805210149.LAA25157@frenzy.ct> <199805211431.KAA17444@brain.zeus.leitch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199805211431.KAA17444@brain.zeus.leitch.com>; from Greg A. Woods on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:31:08AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 Organization: PROSA Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Greg A. Woods writes: > Anyone who's read that article and has even the tiniest amount of > imagination would *NEVER* run LKMs on a production machine. Sure BTW, is there a mechanism to disable loading of LKMs ? (of course, removing the modload command is one way) -- I was thinking about something that looked at the securelevel and refused to load/unload a module depending on it. -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- «Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?» - S. Kelly Bootle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message