Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises
On 4. December 2003 at 3:22PM -0600,
"Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@wiredok.com> wrote:
> From: "csj" <csj@zapo.net>
[...]
> > Now I'm curious: is it possible to get rooted while on
> > dialup? I'm thinking of a user with access to a slow but
> > dirt cheap dialup connection and so is online for significant
> > stretches, say, eight hours. This also assumes that no
> > trojans or similar have been installed on the user's system.
> >
> FYI. As one who has caught several virisus. It can happen on
> dialup and it has always happened to me while downloading
> virisus definitions from Norton.com. I dont believe that
> norton was infectied. Therefore it came from somewhere else.
> Hoyt
Getting rooted, a "targeted" attack, is different from getting
infected by a virus. The only *n*x viruses I've read about tend
to be proof of concept. Of course they could be made part of an
attack...
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