RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !
This is no different than running Winderz and using a copy
of McAfee's Antivirus that is several years old. If you
don't keep up your going to get hit eventually.
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
-|WELL, i'm might have been somewhat too eager to spark a discussion
... the
-|thing i'm wondering/confused about is that the 'worm' infects only redhat
-|systems, according to this article at least ... strange eh ?
-|
-|i only now had the time to read the securityfocus report, and yes indeed all
-|linux's with these versions are vulnerable.
-|
-|anyway, good to know i turned of my machine this morning :)
-|
-|J.L.
-|
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-|From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu]
-|Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:00 PM
-|To: Joris Lambrecht
-|Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
-|Subject: Re: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !
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-|A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
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-|> <<The Register.url>>
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-|> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16168.html
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-|Anything that runs the vulnerable versions of those programs is
-|vulnerable, including Debian. The key is to keep up to date with security
-|"patches" so that you aren't running the vunlerable versions of those
-|programs.
-|
-|Problems like this will only affect those systems that aren't being
-|maintains (through lack of time, administrator cluelessness, or whatever).
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Christopher W. Aiken
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