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Re: My machine was hacked - possibly via sshd?



Incoming from David Pastern:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 07:25 +1000, Malcolm Ferguson wrote:
> > 
> > I'm curious though about your statements telling me that everything I 
> > have is old and that I should be using new versions.  This makes me ask: 
> > what is the point of Debian stable?  Everything but the kernel was a 
> > Debian stable package with all the latest security patches.
> 
> Your kernel is old.  That's for starters.  2.4.30 is in rc2 now.  It
> alone fixes some security issues.  2.4.18 is ancient, and there's most

But 2.4.18 is the Debian stable kernel, which gets security updates
and patches, no?


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