From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 16: 4:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469C837B422; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4EN44I85379; Mon, 14 May 2001 19:04:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010514185814.032fd6f8@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:04:03 -0400 To: "Educatee" , , "FreeBSD security" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: any software to stop melicious attack? In-Reply-To: <005d01c0dcc9$701c3d50$0100c8c8@co3018900a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:58 AM 5/15/2001 +1000, Educatee wrote: >Hi! Can anyone let me know if there are any softare that could run on >FreeBSD 4.x which could enable me to stop any melicious attack on my >machine? Thank you. Its generally considered rude to post to so many lists at once. As to your question, its the same thing as asking, is there any medicine that can stop any illnesses. There is no one medicine to stop everything. And like the metaphor of medicine, prevention is the best approach.... Start with man 7 security There is much to learn. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message