Re: the warez dudez won't leave me alone...
drobbins@unm.edu said:
> I'm new to Linux, how can I be sure there is no way for others to get
> in to my machine when I am in a PPP session?
Disable inetd and rpc.portmap.
You might also want to disable sendmail, sshd, etc... depending on your configuration.
To check if there are any processes listening, do a:
netstat --inet -a
With lsof, you might also know which process opens which socket, etc...
Basically, if no process have a listening socket on your machine, then no one will get in.
This is the only 100% safe (but drastic) solution.
Phil.
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