Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] RPC DCOM Worm

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

With this worm going around, I am very glad that I am using a non-Windows OS. 
But it did make me start thinking?  Suppose Linux was the main OS that everyone 
used?  I do remember that a short while back that there was a flaw in ssh. 
Indeed it was rather serious, and most anyone who did not update ssh on their 
Linux/BSD machine was rooted only a short time later.

Which is to say - if Linux was the main OS in use, you can imagine that most of 
the users would not have updated ssh, and a few weeks or months later there 
would have been a worm on Linux which would have been every bit as nasty as this 
current Windows worm that is going around.



(I saw a joke recently - what is the difference between sendmail and telnet? 
Answer: with sendmail you don't need the password to log in as root.)

-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

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