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Re: Potential Virus or System Message?



Incoming from Faithful John:
> 
> So this gives me a second question.   I'm pretty sure that I disabled
> the remote access ability stuff (though I'm not 100% on that at this
> moment).   Is there a chance someone could still get into my system in

Certainly.  What are you running that you don't need to?  sshd and
weak passwords?  ftpd, telnetd, are you allowing remote shell
commands?

Those and many more can easily bite you.  Disable (preferably) or
secure them.


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