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It depends on what distribution you have used and how you installed it.
Had a background job that was outputing log file entries to a disk parbreastion that was nearing full. During this process, I vi'ed an important source file I was...
Well, Robert Morris wrote a worm over 10 years ago that got through a weak spot in sendmail, and managed what is now called a denial of service attack in the sense that the machines could provide no service until the worm was removed from the Internet. So say "few" viri are written for Linux (and UNIX), not "none."
First thing to do is turn off all daemons that may be running that you do not need. Better yet, remove them entirely (rpm -e unneededPackage, if running Red Hat like distribution) from your system.
I–aki Silanes I understood it easily enough. I only said viri because virii was manifestly wrong. And it is true that our knowledge of Latin is based almost entirely on surviving Latin texts. In...
Next, set up a good firewall with iptables. I like the book, "Red Hat Linux Firewalls" by Bill McCarty. This book does not really depend on running a Red Hat distribution as far as I can tell. Do not bother with ipchains; this is obsolete.
I wrote a guide called the "Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To". Part of this document explains how to install Lilo. Many users have asked for similar information on...
Never use a web browser when running as root. That way, if something terrible happens, it will happen only to you (bad enough); otherwise, if you run as root, it will happen to everyone on the system and you will need to re-install.
Yes, but the *DSL, cable, satellite, WiFi, fibre, dial-up is not the issue. The connection to the Internet is the issue. It is important on all machines connected to the Internet. You can also get viri and other pestilance from CD-ROMs, etc.
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