From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 09:44:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EE816A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:44:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC43443D58 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:44:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i669hxkQ010233 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i669h3sA010232; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:43:03 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20040706094303.GA9617@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Giorgos Keramidas , Phil Schulz , Mark Jayson Alvarez , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040705162320.11141.qmail@web51604.mail.yahoo.com> <40E99786.5000005@gmx.de> <20040705210817.GB4560@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040705210817.GB4560@gothmog.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:44:00 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: Mark Jayson Alvarez cc: Phil Schulz cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:44:09 -0000 --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:08:17AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: =20 > Remember, this is not Windows, where everything is free and you have to > share your personal data with the world :P ITYM "nothing is free, except other people's access to your data." =20 > In short, I've heard of no viruses that affect BSDs during the last 7-8 > years that I'm using a BSD Unix at home and work. The only malware that ever achieved any sort of world prominence was the Scalper worm, which exploited the "chunked transfer encoding" vulnerability in versions of Apache earlier than 1.3.24 or 2.0.36 on i386 FreeBSD: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE+CAN-2002-0392 http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/freebsd.scalper= =2Eworm.html As I remember there were only a few hundred infections, and an Apache patch was available within hours. Hardly the sort of Internet destroying scale we've become accustomed to with all those Windows worms recently. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA6nQniD657aJF7eIRAtKJAJ9US0zR1MECdrUF64B8uMnlnM5OsACfdzo5 H37fCMSkw6uqdBVj1o2hOMo= =+BEq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--